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macOS computer use 1.8x faster, 85% cheaper than cua-driver alone

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I have Claude Code operate macOS apps in the background: fill a form, pick an option from a pop-up, run a calculation. With the MCP server I built on top of cua-driver, beans-picker, a typical task in my benchmark ran 1.8x faster and cost 85% less than with cua-driver alone (median 28.1 s vs 49.7 s…

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  1. 2026-09-27 06:41 · DEV Community — AI
    macOS computer use 1.8x faster, 85% cheaper than cua-driver alone

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