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sunbum11/07/20243 repliesview on HN

What even is it? I read the github repo but that explains nothing about what it actually is.


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AnyTimeTraveler11/07/2024

From the Github Readme[1]:

Automat's objective is to be able to semi-autonomously play a variety of games. It's the first step towards a more general environment for interacting with computers.

Currently Automat's functionality is limited to keyboard macro recording & playback. It's fairly unstable but if you're lucky and it runs on your machine, it can be useful for automating some basic actions.

[1] https://github.com/mafik/automat

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philote11/07/2024

Yeah I had no clue what this site was until reading the comments. I saw you could move things on the page around, then gave up because I had no idea what the point was. I didn't even find the github link until I saw your comment and decided to play around more.

harel11/07/2024

Yes