Computer Use Past the Usefulness Threshold

The ability for models to steer browsers is now past the threshold of being clearly useful. LLM providers have been advertising computer use capabilities for a couple of years1, but in the times I’d tried, the results were more of a clunky curiosity than something I’d actually use on a daily basis. The models used to get stuck quite frequently, had trouble navigating applications that extended beyond their viewport, and would struggle with websites that were even a little outside the normal expectations of how the web works. That’s not a factor anymore. With the past couple months of model/harness progress, it seems we’re firmly on the other side of the “yeah, it just works” threshold. It isn’t just the most capable models that are good at steering browsers: I’ve been quite impressed with GPT-6.1-Terra and GPT-6-Luna’s ability to do automation. Some example use-cases: Automate interactions with Amazon, since Amazon has thus far been swatting down attempts at agent-driven access. For…