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that's what a lot of 'a.i' companies miss - unless you've formerly QA devs deployed as Forward Automation Engineers - writing scripts to automate most tasks done by humans in a service economy - by the time the a.i bubble busts it will all about the promise about a.i to transform the economy while it was near achieved.

browser automation, RPA etc can bring us closer to agentic workflows since most software doesn't provide an API.

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Agreed and a lot of companies seem to have their head in the sand, just hoping AI agents will magic their way through the legacy

But I don't think RPA is the way. Or at least, not in the current state. I think AI agents with proper computer use are what RPA should be. Usual RPA is too brittle and maintaining it often requires more work than just doing the work

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