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Operator

Operator

software
Last discussed Oct 29, 2026

OpenAI's earlier computer-use AI agent product that operated in the cloud to automate web-based tasks.

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John Coogan
mentioned

"Remember Operator? It was the original, like, go and use a computer in a virtual computer to go and click on buttons on a website, and it was pretty janky at the time, but now it's basically solved and that was actually a good investment on the side."

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"Remember Operator? It was the original computer use... it was pretty janky at the time, but now it's basically solved. And that was actually a good..."

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Greg Brockman
critical

"Operator was just kind of below threshold in terms of the model capabilities. It was a cloud-based system that operated with computer use. It was slow, it wasn't fully accurate, it was pretty painful to use. Some people got value but it really was..."

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