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PodcastMTSSeptember 29, 2026

Bots Already Make Up 60% of All Web Traffic | Kyle Jeong

Computer-use AI agents are shifting from slow pixel-clicking to code-writing over accessibility trees, with cost/speed now differentiating models as benchmarks saturate.

  • From clicks to code: Early computer-use agents (Anthropic, OpenAI's Operator) used slow, error-prone pixel-coordinate clicking on fixed viewports like 1288x711; newer models like Astra write Playwright-style code instead.
  • Accessibility tree beats screenshots: Astra uses 'snapshots' of a page's accessibility tree (built for visually-impaired users) rather than screenshots, stripping CSS/visual noise for cheaper, faster, more repeatable actions.

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