alt Hacker NewsI've been working on a utility that lets me "see through" app windows on macOS [1] (I was a dev on Apple's Xcode team and have a strong understanding of how to do this efficiently using private APIs).
I wondered how Claude Code would approach the problem. I fully expected it to do something most human engineers would do: brute-force with ScreenCaptureKit.
It almost instantly figured out that it didn't have to "see through" anything and (correctly) dismissed ScreenCaptureKit due to the performance overhead.
This obviously isn't a "frontier" type problem, but I was impressed that it came up with a novel solution.
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skc • today at 9:18 AM
That's actually pretty cool. What made you think of doing this in the first place?
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Was it a novel solution for you or for everyone? Because that's a pretty big difference. A lot stuff novel for me would be something someone had been doing for decades somewhere.