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Why computer use benchmarks are so hard to run

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Let's say you built a computer use agent and want to know how good it is. The usual way is OSWorld, a popular benchmark of 108 tasks on a real desktop. It is easy to start and hard to get right. I read about 200 GitHub issues to see what goes wrong. Here are the 10 problems you will face, and how I…

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  1. 2026-10-12 18:17 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
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