[sgtwompwomp]

Unfortunately these scripting tools just are untenable when dealing with so many desktop flows that all have changing UIs and random popups. You end up having to repair all of them all the time, in fact there's a whole consulting industry out there just to do this all day.

The whole idea of Cyberdesk is the prompt is the source of truth, and then once you learn a task once via CUA, the system follows that cache most of the time until you have to fall back to CUA, which follows the prompt. And that anomaly is also cached too.

So over time, the system just learns, and gets cheaper and faster.

[gerdesj]

I used AutoIT to remove old AV from roughly 6000 PCs across 20 odd countries back in 2002. I still use it from Zenworks on some customer sites, 20+ years later.

Old school Windows apps are not "flowing" they generally use a toolkit and AutoIT is able to use the Windows APIs to note window handles, or the text in various widgets and so on and act on them.

These are not complicated beasts - they are largely determinant. If you have to go off piste and deal with moguls, you have a mode called "adlib" where you deal with unusual cases.

I find it a bit unpleasant that you describe part of my job as "untenable". I'm sure you didn't mean it as such. I'm still just as cheap as I was 20 years ago and probably a bit quicker now too!