ScreenDrivingAI

It's crazy to waste so much energy having the AI look at and interpret the screen to drive a mouse and keyboard.

We need an API standard for AIAgents to use other apps.

The problem is the war for attention.

This presents app developers with a dilemma. Opening their services up to the big tech companies’ AI might mean losing their direct relationships with users. But trying to stand apart could result in their being shut out of the new digital ecosystems that are likely to coalesce around AI agents.

https://www.ft.com/content/a0e54dd5-b270-42cc-8c4c-18a0b8b3e6cc

Apps (and especially web services undergoing Enshittification) increasingly try to hold the user's attention as much as possible, and to distractingly upsell users to skim ever more money and attention out of them.

No one wants their service turned into an invisible component.

But this will lead to a perverse arms race. Apps increasingly trying to hold on to user attention and LanguageModelAgents burning more energy to figure out how to work around and plough through the distractions.