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>>samwil+(OP)
"To test this system, we pointed it at an ambitious goal: building a web browser from scratch."

I shared my LLM predictions last week, and one of them was that by 2029 "Someone will build a new browser using mainly AI-assisted coding and it won’t even be a surprise" https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-202... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDhQMiAbR8&t=3913s

This project from Cursor is the second attempt I've seen at this now! The other is this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1q4xfm0/over_chr...

>>simonw+35
That makes a lot of sense for massive-scale efforts like a browser, using coordinated agents to push toward a huge, well defined target with existing benchmarks and tests.

My angle has been a bit different: scaling autonomous coding for individual developers, and in a much simpler way. I love CLI agents, but I found myself wasting time babysitting terminals while waiting for turns to finish. At some point it clicked: what if I could just email them?

Email sounds backward, but that’s the feature. It’s universal, async, already collaborative. The agent sends me a focused update, I reply with guidance, and it keeps working on a server somewhere, or my laptop, while I’m not glued to my desk. There’s still a human in the loop, just without micromanagement.

It’s been surprisingly joyful and productive, and it feels closer to how real organizations already work. I’ve put together a small, usable tool around this and shared it here if anyone wants to try it or kick the tires: >>46629191