So, Anthropic just released computer

use, which is basically where you give

Claude access to your browser and your

keyboard, and a lot of people out there

are using this for silly toy demos like

how to organize your file workspace or

whatever the heck. In this video, I want

to show you eight ways you can actually

apply computer usage to real

economically valuable tasks like for

instance reaching out to tens of

thousands of people automatically in a

highly personalized way using my

browser. So, I'm going to start with a

brief demo and then I'm going to show

you guys how you guys can set this up on

your end. We're also going to be

bypassing Anthropic's built-in read

block, which basically is where they

don't allow you to use your browser for

incoming rights. I'll show you guys how

to do that and then I'll also show you

guys how to set it up in case you guys

want to know. Okay, first and foremost,

what's going on here? I'm on LinkedIn

and what I'm doing is I'm sending

connection requests, which are the way

that you sort of do outreach on

LinkedIn. And one thing to note is that

LinkedIn inherently blocks the vast

majority of browser automation because

it's obviously in their interest to

maintain a highly human sort of

environment, right? Most social media

platforms will do this. Instagram does

this, uh you know, X is going to do

this, um Facebook and and so on and so

forth. And so, any sort of like

automation of this task is pretty

difficult to do in practice and you'll

receive some sort of other major

platform block or you know, you're just

going to run into some form of issue.

Computer use basically negates that for

you entirely. If you feed in the right

prompt and then you use the right

browser analog, you can have whatever

automation you want done basically

constantly for you in the background and

I foresee a future where we all have 100

Mac Minis the heck is the the trending

item pretty soon where stuff like this

is occurring on autopilot all the time.

How do you actually do this? Well, I'm

just going to open up my thread here and

you'll see that what I've done is I've

said, "I want you to use computer use to

control my computer and send connection

requests to people on this page with the

Min browser, which is full read write

access." That's important because

Anthropic automatically blocks the usage

of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and most

other major browser tools for this. Then

I say customize each connection request

so it doesn't suck. Use a connect

request like, "Hey first name, saw

casual version of company name and I

think we'd vibe quite a bit given our

interests." So, when I have computer use

on as you guys can see, the browser

looks a little bit different, right? We

have sort of that like yellow outline.

And it's actually like controlling my

mouse. What it's doing is a variant of

what it's already capable of doing with

like Chrome DevTools MCP or whatever

where it takes a screenshot and then you

know, it like kind of controls it. But

you can see that at any point in time I

can just jump in and make minor

adjustments and so on and so forth. And

you know, as long as I'm not doing that

while it's doing something super

valuable or important, it sort of

figures it out on its own. So, that's

use case number one and I just showed

you guys it on LinkedIn, but I want to

show you guys just how many other

platforms you can do this on as well.

Obviously, a big one here is Instagram.

I know sending Instagram DMs

automatically is obviously very high in

demand and you know, a lot of people

want to want to do that. But the same

thing applies to any other platform. So,

you could do this on x.com

despite the fact that I don't think

Facebook is a great place for this

stuff. You can also automate Facebook

entirely. Then obviously, you could do

this on other platforms like I don't

know, TikTok and you know, short form

and and so on and so forth. The way that

you do this to make a long story short

is one, you install a browser that not a

lot of people have heard about, a

browser that is not on the block list.

Anthropic's current block list I think

is

Chrome is Chrome. I think it's also

Safari and then they also do obviously

Edge and Firefox. Min is a simple, free,

and straightforward browser that I'm not

affiliated with at all. It was just the

first one that I tried that wasn't part

of this block list. And what I'm doing

is I have Min set up here. I then logged

into my LinkedIn account and then I just

give it a list of all of the different,

you know, leads I want to actually, you

know, send requests to. And in my case,

I did this pretty straightforwardly. I

just pumped in the term AI automation

into my LinkedIn, sorted by people, and

then I just have it going. Now, I should

note that, you know, most of these

platforms have outreach limits so you

can't actually send like five

quadrillion pieces of outreach

automatically. You'd need either

multiple accounts to do this or I don't

know, some other sort of like black hat

method and I don't recommend doing that.

You know, I don't recommend overly

gaming these social media platforms

because there's obviously downsides and

you know, a fair amount of risks.

But you can apply the exact same

approach to whatever the heck you want.

After that, you just feed the list and

then perhaps most importantly, you have

some form of weak in the cold outreach

business call an icebreaker, which is

some sort of like kind of quasi

customized template that allows AI the

ability to fill in variables

dynamically. And so, in my case, what I

did if I go back to Co-Work is I said,

"Use a connect request like, 'Hey first

name, saw casual version of company name

and I think we'd vibe quite a bit given

our interests.'" You can insert or

replace whatever variables you want

here. It'll work pretty reasonably so

long as Claude obviously has access to

information about that. My next major

use case is going to be scraping social

media for posts and then saving that to

a local file, which I can then feed into

I don't know, Claude code or some other

future thing in order to like generate

content on my end. Now, the issue with

doing a lot of this stuff organically is

obviously one, it takes a fair amount of

time, but then two, there's no like

API-based way to plug this into a

workflow. You either have to have like a

virtual assistant or somebody do it or

you have to do some sort of hacky

workaround. What I'm doing with Claude

computer use is I'm giving it a really

simple and straightforward query just

saying scrape my LinkedIn feed for 10

posts about AI and then save the

trending ones to a file for me with

computer use. Uh and it's just going

through right now basically taking

screenshots and then also saving the

text to a file. Um after I'm done with

that, I could use the file for whatever

I want. So, some really cool use cases

for this. Obviously, there's like

trending news scraper style systems,

which is personally what I'm using this

for. Uh but there are a variety of other

ones as well. You could try like a

parasite-based system, which goes

through somebody's social media

platforms. Again, you know, on platforms

that do not explicitly allow or

explicitly prevent any sort of browser

automation and then get the text. You

could feed that text into AI to have it

like rewritten. You could um save photos

and stuff like that by right-clicking

the pictures saying, you know, save as

and so on and so forth and then

eventually just have like a big file set

up that you can, you know, then plug

into your own content calendar. Once

you're done, you then get a list of

trending AI posts and then you can do

whatever the heck you want with these

posts. In my case, maybe I'm going to

use these trending posts to create some

parasite content or whatever and then

use that to rank on LinkedIn. My next

use case is going to be giving it a list

of forms. So, in my case, I'm just going

to use dentist, but you guys can do

whatever the heck you want. Contact

forms for agencies, I don't know, big

people to get in touch with, whatever.

And then just have it actually reach out

to them by filling out those forms. And

this is valuable because a big chunk of

the internet right now is like

gate-walled by contact forms and so on

and so forth. You can't find people's

emails, but you can get a contact form.

And so, you can use or have computer use

um actually control your browser, click

buttons and so on and so forth one,

mitigate the appearance of CAPTCHAs and

other things while also two, um filling

it out in like a human natural way with,

you know, your browser and stuff. So, in

this case, I said with computer use,

fill these forms out. Loose info, gave

it my name and so on and so forth. You

know, initially it tried using Chrome.

The reason why is because it always

tries just using the specific um thing

that it's connected to. What I'm going

to do now is I'm actually just going to

go into the Min browser again. It's

going to open up some new tabs I imagine

using the URLs that I gave and again,

it's literally using my my keyboard,

which is why it's so cool.

And then it's going to try and uh you

know, fill out their forms and stuff.

So, here's a simple walk-in dental

clinic, you know, it's like a new

patient form and it's just going to go

top to bottom and click on everything.

It started by closing the chat widget

and now it's going to start with the

what looks like first name, last name,

and then work through each field. I

should note that, you know, a couple of

these input fields are pretty dynamic,

right? One of these is like a birth year

or birth date picker. It's not very

straightforward. And what it's done is

it's just like clicked on four things in

like 2 seconds for me and it's just

working its way top to bottom. And when

all said and done, it then fills out the

form and then submits it. The next one's

going to be managing ad platforms

without API access. So, think of things

like Google Ads or Meta Ads or TikTok

Ads. Like these platforms all lock down

their ads stuff really, really strongly

and then they also just make it a pain

in the ass if you do have any sort of

API access. Um the reason why is

obviously they just don't want like a

fleet of agents that control everything

completely automatically. But what's

walled is with computer use, you can do

that. And you can make a fair amount of

money in the interim by automating all

of that stuff before, you know, they

catch up. So, this is one of the

companies that I run and we do ads for a

fair number of dentists across the

Canada area. We typically generate ROASs

anywhere between 8 to 10x, so very

strong stuff. And let's just say I want

to automate the process of I don't know,

like turning off ads that aren't very

good. So, in my case, maybe I want to

click through all new patient video ads

in the current ads manager page and then

find the cost per lead. I want the

inside view so I actually want to like

inside

not just on this little dashboard and

then I just want to turn off the lowest

performers. Obviously, I could

standardize this in like a bajillion

different ways. Hopefully, that's clear.

I don't just have to do it like super

loosely like find the best ads. I could

have strict SOPs where it's like find

the top three performing ads, find the

lowest five performing ads, and so on

and so forth. But just like I use my own

computer and my mouse to do this, I

could do this with computer use

controlling everything. This reminds me

of like those Tesla self-driving ads,

but like my hands up here. So, I don't

know. It's finding the new leads ad. You

know, it's saying that there's no budget

and then maybe it's turning it on or

it's turning it off. Hopefully, you guys

get the point. You can automate the

large majority of more or less any

valuable knowledge work like this. I

think honestly, the thing that I'm

coming to realize is the more important

thing than actually just like having a

list of things to automate

is just knowing what to automate and

then having a pre-existing like SOP for

that. Um so, believe it or not like the

big businesses are going to have the

most success with this stuff. Not

necessarily, you know, the the small

ones. But anyway, here's it going

through clicking on my ad sets and and

stuff like that finding the highest

performers and then enabling them or

disabling them. Another cool use case is

uploading and then managing things for

YouTube. Very similar idea so I'm not

going to show it here, but what you can

do is in my case, you know, I record a

lot of videos via OBS. That's what you

guys are watching right now. Um

previously, in order for me to automate

the process of uploading them to

YouTube, I had to use the YouTube API or

I had to use some sort of third-party

service that connected with YouTube like

Go Fonic. And the issue behind uploading

things automatically to social media

platforms via API

is like the the current consensus is

they will block you or significantly

restrict your reach if you do it

automatically. Again, cuz they don't

want automatically generated content.

They want like real user-generated

content, people that actually click

buttons. Well, now you can just have

computer use do it for you. You can

automate the process and you can also

get all of the upside of like having

organic reach and brand. The next use

case is going to be pretty

straightforward. I'm just going to have

it compile a bunch of invoices to me um

locally on my computer. Obviously, I

could do this manually and there are

probably some API-based ways I could do

this as well, But uh this uses the exact

same interface that I do. Very similar

to like a humanoid robot. Why do we make

humanoid robots nowadays? It's because

despite the fact that other types of

robots are probably better, our natural

environment is geared towards like

humanoids, right? So, humanoid robots

obviously, despite not being perfect at

any one thing, can do everything, which

is valuable. In my case, I just have it

grabbing the first Appify billing

invoice because uh I pay them for the

automation of a few other things that I

do. And then it's just going to save

that to an invoices folder. $49 US, good

lord. What's funny is I think I was

right across the street from their

office when I was in Prague. That's

wild. I didn't realize they were

headquartered down there.

Anyway, it's uh scrolling down now. Then

uh sorry, I didn't want to show you guys

my address or anything, but it went

through, it downloaded it, and now um

you know, it's in my downloads folder

right over here. You can also have it

automate some desktop apps as well. Now,

this is sort of like the more boring use

cases that most of the people have shown

on YouTube videos, but still pretty

interesting. You can have it automate

like Premiere Pro, for instance, to

identify um low waveform points on a

graph and then actually cut right at

like the lowest point. You could have it

do a combination of like terminal-based

commands, and then I'm just like I'm a

video editor cuz I do a lot of video

editing right now. GUI-based commands to

both shorten it, uh you know, have

Premiere Pro generate captions for you,

slap the captions on the video

automatically, and then do a couple of

other things. Uh you know, really the

sky is the limit there, and

unfortunately, there's just so many

different products that we could use

there. I don't feel like I'd do a

substantive positive service by demoing

just a couple of mine. Okay, and then

finally, uh QA testing. Because we are

using our mouse and our keyboard here,

uh we are going to be interacting with

the screen with Plaud in a very similar

way to in which a human would really

realistically interact with the screen.

A lot of the ways that people have been

doing of some sort of um QA testing so

far has been using like Chrome DevTools

MCP or browser automation. And that's

okay because, you know, it still like

does things on the computer, but it

doesn't do so in a way that a human

being might. For instance, it like

doesn't click specific parts of the

page, right? What it'll do is it'll like

run JavaScript that simulates a click

event. So, what I've done here is I've

said, "Hey, I want you to QA test on

nicksri.com. Go through my entire

sign-up flow. Try to break it.

Screenshot every step." The goal is some

form of real user simulation. I just

want you to actually like do it the way

that I would do it. And you can see that

it's uh it's going to try and break it

in like a million different ways. And

the reason why this is valuable is

because sometimes there are like buttons

on a page or features in an app that

aren't immediately accessible to

something like a browser automation

version. Personally, I think this is

what like a lot of big teams have

probably been doing for at least a

little while.

Uh I would almost guarantee you the

Anthropic team in particular has

probably been using it to like stress

test their products. But it's going to

start clicking various buttons. It's

going to try all the different

validation approaches and so on and so

forth. And this isn't a product, it's

just my own personal website. But

hopefully you guys can see how you'd be

able to scale up an approach like this

uh

substantive as you want. All right. So,

how do you actually get this set up?

It's actually really straightforward.

First of all, this is in research

preview mode, so some of the features

that I just showed to you may be

invalidated if you're watching this

video like two or three months from now.

>> [gasps]

>> Um but realistically, all you really

need to do is just like download and

then install the Claude Code desktop

app. So, you can do that by just going

to Claude desktop app. Okay, give that

button a quick click. You'll go to the

downloads page, and then we have a

couple of different options here

depending on if you guys are on like

macOS or Windows. Now, in my case, I'm

on macOS, so I'm just going to click

download on Claude desktop. That's going

to open up this page. In the top

right-hand corner, you can see it. I've

done this a couple of times cuz I wanted

to reinstall it. Then um all you do is

you drag the Claude app over to

applications. I'm not going to do that

cuz it's going to reinstall it for me,

and you know, I already have it

installed. And then just type Claude to

actually open up the app. Once you're

done with that, you'll have access to

three different tabs: chat, co-work, and

code. Um right now, it's available for

co-work and code, not inherently chat.

But in order to do this, just go to

co-work, and then now you can basically

say, "Hey, do X, Y, and Z." It may not

be enabled for you guys right off the

bat. If that's the case, head over to

settings first, and then underneath

general, scroll all the way down to

where it says browser use and computer

use. Enable browser use cuz that'll

allow it to use the crop the Claude

Chrome extension, which allows it to do

some browser stuff. And then also enable

computer use, which allows it to take

screenshots and control your keyboard

and mouse in apps that you allow. Then

you can do any of the demos, you know,

that I say, and you know, just in order

to maximize the probability that it

actually uses the computer use feature,

I have so far just been appending or

prepending my request with the term

computer use. Otherwise, sometimes it'll

just try doing API stuff. The reason why

is probably cuz it's very

token-intensive, and I'm I'm sure

they'll figure out ways to make it less

token-intensive over time, but right

now, this is the simplest manner. Okay,

and then the last thing is you need some

sort of browser app that does both read

and write access. Uh the one that I'm

using right now is called

minbrowser.org.

If this does, for whatever reason, get

patched or whatever, uh you can also

just look up other browsers that are

safe, hopefully open source, that'd be

ideal. Um the way I get that is I just

went on a Claude Code, and I said like,

"Find me 20 different browsers." And uh

you know, one of those ended up working.

Okay, so that said, hopefully you guys

appreciated this look in how to actually

make money with Claude computer use.

It's not just fancy toy demos here, but

you know, if you apply it to a couple of

interesting workarounds, you can make

some cool things happen, and you can

also take advantage of browser

fingerprinting and stuff like that.

Aside from that, if you guys enjoyed

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