one-agent-one-browser
Dev tools
browser engine experiment
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How HN took it
19 positive, 29 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 60 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Execution: 5 for, 5 againstIdea: 7 for, 3 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Very small binaries, around 1 MB
From 1 comment
The binaries are only around 1 MB for Linux, Mac and Windows. Very impressive https://github.com/embedding-shapes/one-agent-one-browser/releases/tag/0.1.0
barredo on HN
Objections
Not impressive; many browsers exist as training data references
From 1 comment
This is not that impressive, there are numerous examples of browsers for training data to reference.
deadbabe on HN
Renders many websites poorly and has no default stylesheet
From 2 comments
It's a really basic browser. It's made less as an independent thing, and more as a reply to https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents, so as long as it does more or less the same as…
embedding-shape on HN> I'm familiar with this pattern from all the rest of my trying frontier ML results! Well, that's how this browser came to be, because I felt something similar to with how Cursor…
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Security is weak; not safe to load arbitrary websites
From 1 comment
Hah, yeah, zero regards to security, don't run this without sandbox and load arbitrary websites :) I don't think Rust helps much except preventing some very basic issues, for…
embedding-shape on HN
Requests
Make the session logs public
From 2 comments
Codex, no idea about tokens, I'll upload the session data probably tomorrow so you could see exactly what was done. I pay ~200 EUR/month for the ChatGPT Pro plan, prorating days…
embedding-shape on HN> i think for this specific task having css-spec/html-spec/web-platform-tests as machine readable test suites helps a LOT You know, I placed the specs in the repository with that…
embedding-shape on HN
Explain the expertise behind the guidance
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What kind of time frame do you ballpark this would have taken you on your own? I know it's a little apples-and-oranges (you and the agent wouldn't produce the exact same thing),…
happytoexplain on HN
Questions
What is the point of this project
From 1 comment
What’s the point of this?
mdavid626 on HN
How long would it take the author alone
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What kind of time frame do you ballpark this would have taken you on your own? I know it's a little apples-and-oranges (you and the agent wouldn't produce the exact same thing),…
happytoexplain on HN
Alternatives named
Lynx and OffByOne text browsers for size comparison
From 1 comment
Tried building with some other arguments/configs, went from 1,2M on X11 to 664K, which seems to place it under Lynx (text-only, 714k) but above OffByOne (full HTML 3.2, 409k). Of…
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