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Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
29•franze•34m ago

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ForHackernews•18m ago
"and they keep hitting the same wall, the part that only a human may do"

Grim. If you're just there to click sudo buttons for the bot, you might as well give it root access and be done.

franze•9m ago
Claude refuses to do certain actions (enter passwords, change security settings, create new accounts on external services) even in Yolo mode running as sudo. (I tested it all on its own mac machine)
gwerbin•6m ago
You can add custom auto-mode classifier rules and even disable the built-in ones, if you want to live on the edge like this.
satyanash•15m ago
Am I missing something here?

What terminal / agentic workflows spawn the demonstrated dialogue boxes that require the User to click/reject the action? Aren't most such flows actually inline UIs? And finally, if the core issue is that these confirmation boxes are tied to the terminal that triggered them, which does not autofocus, what's the point of said "big arrow" that is also lurking behind without focus?

If the said "big arrow" automatically gains focus, isn't the real fix here to just make the dialogue boxes themselves gain focus automatically? Both are similarly disruptive anyway.

inanutshellus•7m ago
The first example (of HN) is the one that feels like it has the most potential to me.

"Tech me how to use this app myself" kinda stuff. Guiding agent rather than doing agent.

lapestenoire•11m ago
I love it.
einpoklum•8m ago
More LLM-authored items about LLM slop.
TekMol•7m ago
Swift, Shell, Python and Objective-C

Does one need 4 programming languages to draw something on a mac?

sitzkrieg•6m ago
welcome to zombocom. err i mean modern HN :-(
vessenes•4m ago
Interesting. When I read the headline I imagined this would be a sort of thinking trace booster -- letting the agent focus its own attention on different parts of the screen. But this is cool in a different way. I bet agentic harnesses would find it useful for communicating with other agents / themselves as well.

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1•sinnsro•17m ago•0 comments

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2•trotro•21m ago•0 comments

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1•GaryBluto•30m ago•0 comments

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2•ssernikk•34m ago•2 comments

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1•atum47•34m ago•0 comments

Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

https://github.com/franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen
35•franze•34m ago•12 comments

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1•aliceo211•46m ago•0 comments