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I’m not sure how unique or a new problem this is first individually to me and then generally.

Automation technologies to handle things like UI automation have existed long before LLMs and work quite fine.

Having an intentionally imprecise and non deterministic software try to behave in a deterministic manner like all software we’re used to is something else.

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The people that use these UIs are already imprecise and non deterministic, yet that hasn’t stopped anyone from hiring them.

The potential advantage of using non-deterministic AI for this is that 1) “programming” it to do what needs to be done is a lot easier, and 2) it tends to handle exceptions more gracefully.

You’re right that the approach is nothing new, but it hasn’t taken off, arguably at least in part because it’s been too cumbersome to be practical. I have some hope that LLMs will help change this.

The cost to develop and maintain UI automation is prohibitive for most companies

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