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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
Surely a smart implementation would just find the chromium source on github, do some cosmetic rewrites and strip out all none-essential features?

>>jcfrei+qR1
You'd be able to see it doing that by looking at the transcript. You could then tell it not to!

>>simonw+kD2
I suppose Cursor forgot to tell their AI that, before claiming that it built everything "from-scratch"