Jamie Dubs

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what happened with old one? nbd if sensitive

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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/

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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.

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

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Sadly, totally typical on a warm day

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warm weather day hangover

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https://glif.app & related

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thanks i hate it

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details here https://jamiedubs.com/blog/ai-code-tools-power-summary-stack-rank/ - and yes this will all be out of date in 3 weeks, RIP

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AI app development tools that I’ve used and recommend you check out (March 2025 edition): - low-code: Lovable, Bolt, Vercel v0 - mid-code: Valtown, Replit - full-code: Claude Code, Cline, Windsurf, Cursor, Aider

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as I’ve been getting back into attending NYC tech events post-covid I have noticed that it is unusual for there to be alcohol. Doesn’t matter if it’s AI, crypto, b2b, whatever. Always seltzer, generally pizza, rarely beer

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p.s. I wanted to post this in the AI channel but I don't have permission I think? anywhere else folks are chatting AI dev on Farcaster?

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more on my old person blog https://jamiedubs.com/blog/llm-plugins-and-the-state-of-mcp/

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lots of MCP hype and debunking flying around. I've been working with it since launch and believe all of these are true: 1. MCP is complex, overengineered, hard to host in cloud, security model is nonexistent, weird names. all of that is rapidly improving, but out of the gate it had some serious shortcomings 2. MCP is also the best current solution for "LLM plugins" or "SDK but for LLMs". everything else is either proprietary or involves us all writing the same code. same reason SDKs exist

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discovery/rebuilding social graph is always my hurdle

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I’m kind of loving these positive reinforcement bots???? thx

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