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0 pointsDebtDeflation1y ago0 comments

>it seems some people are really put off by this type of approach

As someone who has had to interact with legacy enterprise systems via RPA (screen scraping and keystroke recording) it is absolutely awful, incredibly brittle, and unmaintainable once you get past a certain level of complexity. Even when it works, performance at scale is terrible.

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stogot1y ago

Everytime I imagine building this, I imagine the “it works” happypath and that I’ll get bit by a deluge of random error messages I never accounted for

asadalt1y ago

adding a neural network in the middle suddenly makes these things less brittle. We are approaching the point where this kind of “hacky glue” is almost scalable.

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