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Splitting planning from clicking made my desktop agent much faster: frontier model plans, small model acts

I've been building a desktop agent for my Mac, and the biggest speedup came from splitting planning from acting. The problem: when a frontier model drives a GUI directly, every click costs a screenshot plus a full reasoning pass. That's slow (several seconds a step) and expensive, even though most…

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  1. 2026-10-18 20:37 · r/AI_Agents
    Splitting planning from clicking made my desktop agent much faster: frontier model plans, small model acts

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