Comment by fabrice_d

Comment by fabrice_d 5 days ago

This is a cool project, and to render Simon's blog will likely become the #1 goal of AI produced "web browsers".

But we're very far from a browser here, so that's not that impressive. Writing a basic renderer is really not that hard, and matches the effort and low LoC from that experiment. This is similar to countless graphical toolkits that have been written since the 70s.

I know Servo has a "no AI contribution" policy, but I still would be more impressed by a Servo fork that gets missing APIs implemented by an AI, with WPT tests passing etc. It's a lot less marketable I guess. Go add something like WebTransport for instance, it's a recent API so the spec should be properly written and there's a good test suite.

Dave3of5 4 days ago

100% agree this isn't a browser. It's better than the previous attempt but fails to render even basic html websites correctly and crashes constantly.

The fact that it compiles is better the the cursor dude. "It Compiles" is a very low bar to working software.

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embedding-shape 4 days ago

I think what I wanted to demonstrate here was less "You can build a browser with an agent", and more how bullshit Cursor's initial claim was, that "hundreds of agents" somehow managed to build something good, autonomously. It's more of a continuation of a blog post I wrote some days ago (https://emsh.cat/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/), than a standalone proof of "agents can build browsers".
Unfortunately, this context is kind of implicit, I don't actually mention it in the blog post, which I probably should have done, that's my fault.

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