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firloopyesterday at 8:10 PM1 replyview on HN

I don't think Claude has this part yet:

> With background computer use, Codex can now use all of the apps on your computer by seeing, clicking, and typing with its own cursor. Multiple agents can work on your Mac in parallel, without interfering with your own work in other apps.


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krackersyesterday at 8:32 PM

>background computer use

How does that even work technically? macOS doesn't support multiple cursors. On native Cocoa apps you can pass input to a window without raising via command+click so possibly they synthesized those events, but fewer and fewer apps support that these days. And AppleScript is basically dead, so they can't be using that either.

I also read they acquired the Sky team (who I think were former Apple employees). No wonder they were able to pull of something so slick.

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