Amazon Nova Act came out yesterday but I'm skipping this one. I've played with lots of "LLM controlling web browser" tools (Operator, Computer Use, Open Interpreter) and written tons of Playwright and Puppeteer code and I'm not that excited about this approach anymore.

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Websites that want agents to use them will just expose APIs or improve their overall accessiblity. Sites that don't want bots (eg Ticketmaster) already have aggressive anti-bot tech and no API for a reason.

I'm still interested in browser automation, but it's not the panacea I used to imagine. Read more on my blog:

I'm still interested in browser automation, but it's not the panacea I used to imagine. Read more on my blog: https://jamiedubs.com/blog/computers-controlling-web-browsers/

Makes for flashy demos but in reality it's slow, flaky, and gets blocked by always-improving anti-bot tech