Screen-scraping agents look fine in demos — they fall apart the moment the UI changes
I've been thinking about this: there are basically two ways to hook an agent up to your software. Structured access, or screen-scraping. In a demo they look identical. In production they're nothing alike. Scraping is the agent reading the UI like a human would — parsing pixels, clicking buttons, fi…
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- 2026-10-06 03:22 · r/AI_Agents
Screen-scraping agents look fine in demos — they fall apart the moment the UI changes