On the other hand, I never understood the focus on computer use.

While more general and perhaps the "ideal" end state once models run cheaply enough, you're always going to suffer from much higher latency and reduced cognition performance vs API/programmatically driven workflows. And strictly more expensive for the same result.

Why not update software to use API first workflows instead?

The industry probably moves a lot faster adding apis and co than learning how to use a generic computer with generic tools.

I also think its a huge barrier allowing some LLM model access to your desktop.

Managed Agents seems like a lot more beneficial

The trillion dollar "Computer Use" model could not figure out how to configure audio outputs in Microsoft Teams. It then model-collapsed when trying to configure an HP printer. AGI was postponed, we'll get back to this after next weeks retrospective.