From YouTube to Execution: How GUIDE Teaches AI Agents to Actually Use Software
Tutorials are where software knowledge goes to become useful, messy, and mildly unbearable. A human trying to learn GIMP, LibreOffice Calc, Thunderbird, or VS Code can survive this mess. We search YouTube, skim a video, ignore the creator’s life story, watch the cursor, and remember that the menu item we need is not where our intuition said it would be. A GUI agent, even a strong vision-language model, has a harder time. It may see the screen. It may understand the instruction. It may even know the general category of action. Then it clicks the wrong menu because the software has its own local customs. Software, regrettably, has culture. ...