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Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week

Latent Space Blog · Sep 30, 2026 · Engineering Insights

OpenAI's computer use agents are now '180 degrees different,' approaching superhuman software operation speed

“180 degrees different”

Ari Weinstein, cofounder of Sky Software (acquired by OpenAI), describes a dramatic leap in computer use agent capability driven by combining screenshots, accessibility trees, DOM, Playwright, and generated JavaScript. OpenAI simultaneously shipped a new developer stack including async tool calling, mid-turn steering, UltraFast inference, and the Decisions API in roughly one week. These advances move computer use from a research curiosity to a practical system completing some tasks faster than average humans.

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