Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you

Why use your smartphone when AI can do it for you? We’ve reached a new level of AI inanity with the launch of Opposable , a tool that taps, swipes, and types on Android phones and controls iPhones through a companion computer, sparing users the apparent burden of operating their own devices.

If you don't want to update a calendar event, start a timer, or enable dark mode, you can apparently use an AI agent app on your computer (any client that supports MCP will do) to have Opposable do the thing for you on a connected phone.

You could just do it on your computer, of course, but that’d require actually using your hands - like it’s some sort of baby’s toy .

Lame.

Opposable describes the purpose of its app as being to “give your AI thumbs” that allow an agent to open apps, read the screen, tap, and type, all while signed in to a device as the person too lazy to use a super-convenient technology themselves.

As described in a blog post published by its creators Wednesday, Opposable's developers explain that its Android implementation uses accessibility services to inspect the screen, while screenshots provide visual input for an AI model.

The model then decodes the images and figures out where it needs to tap on the screen in order to do whatever its user asked of it.

The visual processing is handled by a vision-language model known as GUI-Owl 1.5 2B, running through llama.cpp, while tasks can be handled by either a paired desktop AI agent or an on-device agent that works without a desktop connection (the latter is available only on Android devices – iPhones require a companion computer, with a Mac beta available and a hardware-assisted Windows/Linux option also advertised).

Even then, AI isn’t used for everything, with around 40 common tasks (setting an alarm, sending a text, switching Wi-Fi on or off) running as fixed code without an AI model involved.

Opposable doesn’t appear to be particularly fast, however, and its accuracy is questionable too.

Opposable’s website includes three different examples of tasks executed using its product, and none seem to merit using an AI over, you know, human hands.

In one example, Claude Code over MCP is used to change the system’s theme to dark mode and then set a five-minute timer.

This takes 50 seconds and requires 17 tool calls.

In a second example using Claude Code and MCP, Opposable is asked to look up when Apollo 11 launched and who was on board, which takes just shy of 2 minutes.