The bitter lesson of browser agents
gregpr07
11 points
2 comments
September 15, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
ramesh31
Repeat ad nauseam across nearly the entire ecosystem of MCP tooling that sprung up over the last two years. Turns out all we ever needed was Bash.
danielvaughn
For a while I was working on a browser for UI designers, which involved pretty heavy use of LLMs talking to CDP. In my experience, CDP is extremely token consumptive.