Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once
43 points by bayes-song
by wuweiaxin
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The demonstration-based approach is interesting for the handoff problem. The hardest part of agentic automation isnt the first run -- its making the agent robust to the cases the demonstrator never showed it. How do you handle edge cases or failures mid-task? Does it fall back to asking the user, or does it have some recovery heuristic? Asking because we found that the failure mode surface matters more than happy-path coverage when you actually deploy these in production.
by abraxas
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One more tool targeting OSX only. That platform is overserved with desktop agents already while others are underserved, especially Linux.
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by jedreckoning
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cool idea. good idea doing a demo as well.
by aiwithapex
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by webpolis
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by sukhdeepprashut
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2026 and we still pretend to not understand how llms work huh
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