# 100x faster & cheaper computer use than OpenAI Operator

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/100x-faster-cheaper-computer-use-than-openai-operator/1229908>\
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**Created:** [April 12, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/100x-faster-cheaper-computer-use-than-openai-operator/1229908 "2025-04-12T00:52:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![louis030195](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/louis030195/32/36792_2.png) [@louis030195](https://community.openai.com/u/louis030195)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/100x-faster-cheaper-computer-use-than-openai-operator/1229908/1 "2025-04-12T00:52:24Z")

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been working on this OSS lib to control your computer using OS level API instead of vision/pixels which is much faster, cheaper, and more reliable:

> **[GitHub - mediar-ai/terminator: Playwright but for your desktop. Automate your...](https://github.com/mediar-ai/terminator)**
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> Playwright but for your desktop. Automate your Windows computer in JS or Python. 100x faster and cheaper than OpenAI Operator or Anthropic Computer Use

would love to hear your thoughts, any feedback or ideas?

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**Author:** ![Diet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/diet/32/562749_2.png) [@Diet](https://community.openai.com/u/Diet)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/100x-faster-cheaper-computer-use-than-openai-operator/1229908/2 "2025-04-12T01:36:35Z")

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What’s the scope of this? I don’t expect it to work with electron apps, for example? 🤔

I imagine you’re using the accessibility and .NET UI automation layers?

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**Author:** ![liljohnak](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/liljohnak/32/146305_2.png) [@liljohnak](https://community.openai.com/u/liljohnak)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 2:54am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/100x-faster-cheaper-computer-use-than-openai-operator/1229908/3 "2025-04-13T02:54:27Z")

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Very cool. Was thinking about doing this for WinAppDriver.

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**Author:** ![louis030195](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/louis030195/32/36792_2.png) [@louis030195](https://community.openai.com/u/louis030195)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/100x-faster-cheaper-computer-use-than-openai-operator/1229908/4 "2025-05-03T21:30:43Z")

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It works with everything. Our approach is to provide tools to LLM and prioritize the UIAutomation layer (windows API) in the system prompt. AI can also fallback to OCR (we also use native local Windows OCR API(, vision, if it fails to rely purely on UIAutomation.

Why .NET, such a dinosaur language lol. We use pure Rust and TS for the AI stack since TS is the best programming language for production AI.

UIAutomation works for 99% of things though, and much faster and reliable.

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**Author:** ![louis030195](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/louis030195/32/36792_2.png) [@louis030195](https://community.openai.com/u/louis030195)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/100x-faster-cheaper-computer-use-than-openai-operator/1229908/5 "2025-05-23T00:54:11Z")

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Pushed bunch of updates, it can fill forms with 1000 fields in \<1s now 🙂

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/1/a/b/1abf31482c9280ed600de626514a45bb36c39bca.jpeg "Introducing Smart Autofill (Mediar AI Agent)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whIxXj1q1Tc)