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How I gave my desktop AI companion computer use: a Cua driver, fresh element tokens, and a Rust patch for owned menus

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Ankita is a personal AI companion that lives on your desktop — "a little companion, a lot more possible" is the whole pitch. But there was a hole in that pitch you could drive a window manager through: she could chat, she could drive a browser, and she could run commands. She could not click things…

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  1. 2026-10-13 10:25 · DEV Community — AI
    How I gave my desktop AI companion computer use: a Cua driver, fresh element tokens, and a Rust patch for owned menus

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