the CUA wizard ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ @trycua
San Francisco, CA
Joined February 2015
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hermes can now spin up cua spaces on your own mac, windows pc or linux box, do the work, and clean up after
your team can jump in anytime
thanks @Teknium for inspiring this !
Francesco retweeted
You SHOULD start learning/using two things:
- Hermes agent
- local AI
That is the future.
Jensen closed his GTC Berlin 2026 keynote with this Hermes Agent demo as the finale.
He introduced it by saying the way to build an agent is to ask an agent to build it for you, so he installed and set up a customized Hermes in one prompt.
Then he used Hermes, running on @nvidia RTX Spark, to create a simulated training environment for the @huggingface Microduck. Hermes planned an obstacle course with Nemotron and had GPT-6 Astra build it using FreeCAD, Omniverse libraries, Blender, Newton, and Isaac Lab. Hermes trained thousands of simulated ducks on that course until the validated policy was ready to run on the real robot in the physical world.
At Nous, we believe open source is a practical tool as much as a philosophical ideal. It gives users the ability to build powerful, complex workflows chaining numerous local+cloud models, devices, and tools themselves instead of waiting for a company to enable them.
1/ 100% agree with the list at the end. trust, community, hardware. that's out bet behind cua spaces.
the code was public from day one. here's where our time actually goes 🧵
4/ same as photoshop or office: you're not buying the code, you're buying the cohesive experience and the team behind it.
Francesco retweeted
Cua (@trycua) gives every AI agent its own cloud desktop.
Francesco Bonacci (@francedot) came from Xbox and Microsoft AI. At YC in Spring 2025 he launched Cua as open source containers where computer-use agents control a full operating system, at up to 97% of native CPU speed on Apple Silicon.
The idea: agents need real apps to be useful, and handing them your own machine is risky. A sandboxed desktop keeps the agent productive and your data safe.
Today Cua runs desktops for coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. Orange Collective led their seed, alongside Y Combinator (@ycombinator).
@guilleflorvs and I are investors.
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PERSONAL NEWS: After 1 year in stealth @guilleflorvs and I are launching GR Angel
We invest in exceptional founders, put them in front of one of the biggest tech audiences in the world: + 600k followers, + 400k subs & 10M weekly views
Across our personal angel investments and GR Angel, we’ve now backed:
→ A portfolio that has raised $1.2B+
→ Companies including HappyRobot, Replit, Starcloud, Peec ai
→ Alongside investors including a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund and General Catalyst
→ 1 Exit: Portco went from $10Kmrr to 7M arr in close to 1 year
Our distribution has helped startups get millions of views, increase their ARR, and receive term sheets
Now we’re looking for the most cracked founders worldwide, investing bigger checks, and hiring
you can reach out to us 24 7 👀
Francesco retweeted
ChatGPTのdotsの代わりを探してて、Cua Spacesを試そうと調べてみた。
Claude Codeを自分のPCで動かせるのはいいけど、自動で動かせるのは「毎朝8時に」みたいな時間指定だけ。
自分がやりたい「メールが来たら知らせて、返信案まで作る」には合わなかった…
スマホで承認する仕組みもMac＋iPhone専用でした
Cua users keep raising the bar!
I used the CUA SDK (@trycua) + my Meta glasses that have Claude inside
giving my own glasses, its own computer.
"Hey Claude, use your computer and open Gmail, make a draft email about Opus 5.5."
It does the work on its own computer, not my Mac, and tells me in my ear when it's done.
Runs on my local Claude Code. No API key. @francedot
Francesco retweeted
Been hitting computer use issues with Codex on macOS, mostly around screensaver and display sleep.
After I posted about it, the @trycua team suggested using Cua. I use Cua often with agents, but usually stick to Codex native when using the desktop app bc it’s been solid until recently.
Fired up Cua and ran into a similar problem almost immediately 🫣
Did a pretty thorough investigation:
- tested screensaver and display sleep separately
- compared accessibility behavior before/after
- dug through macOS logs.
Screenshots still worked, but the accessibility tree dropped from 68 elements to zero and background interactions got blocked.
Shared the findings here in same thread. The team jumped on it immediately, reproduced the screensaver case, and opened a GitHub issue + PR with a fix.
Really cool to see that level of responsiveness! They truly pay attention to users. OSS for the win!
Appreciate the @trycua folks! 🫡
Issue: github.com/trycua/cua/issues…
PR: github.com/trycua/cua/pull/5…
Francesco retweeted
we make the trends
we make the trends
Francesco retweeted
this is why i love open source. they shipped an ios sample, i turned it into my own app. now my bots work on my mac and report to my phone :d
Francesco retweeted
BREAKING: After 1 year in stealth, @rdominguezibar and I are launching GR Angel.
We invest in exceptional founders, put them in front of one of the biggest tech audiences in the world: + 600k followers, + 400k subs & 10M weekly views.
Across our personal angel investments and GR Angel, we’ve now backed:
→ A portfolio that has raised $1.2B+
→ Companies including HappyRobot, Replit, Nozomio, Throxy, Apollo Atomics, Gru Space, Didit, Aktoria Robotics, Arga Labs, Hyperspell and QFEX
→ Alongside investors including a16z, Sequoia, Founders Fund and General Catalyst
→ 1 Exit: Portco went from $10Kmrr to 7M arr in close to 1 year
Our distribution has helped startups get millions of views, one doubled its ARR and another received a $1M investment offer and much more.
Now we’re looking for the most cracked founders worldwide, investing bigger checks and starting our growth phase, you can reach out to us 24 7 and hiring 👀
i moved to sf and this happens
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¡Hola, Comunidad de Madrid! 🇪🇸 Nos emociona anunciar que llegamos a España, empezando por Madrid. Esta será nuestra primera región en España y la segunda en la Unión Europea. Planeamos lanzar nuestro servicio de ride-hailing totalmente autónomo en la Comunidad en 2027.
