I don't think anyone is saying the technology isn't cool (and I see no one using the word "useless" but you).<p>I believe most people are warning about the demonstrated technology for this task:<p>&#62; Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots).<p>As I said below, for personal scripting of known applications I think this GUI automation is great. But upon seeing it, we had all hoped to see a technology which would get over our biggest hurdles in GUI development/testing. As it doesn't sound like it would do that (well) for a number of reasons (i.e. localization, themes, OS/app versioning, design changes during development, coloring, etc), it loses a lot of its practical application appeal.<p>It's still really cool technology and is a cool way to think about this kind of problem.