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>>embedd+(OP)
This is a notably better demonstration of a coding agent generated browser than Cursor's FastRender - it's a fraction of the size (20,000 lines of Rust compared to ~1.6m), uses way fewer dependencies (just system libraries for rendering images and text) and the code is actually quite readable - here's the flexbox implementation, for example: https://github.com/embedding-shapes/one-agent-one-browser/bl...

Here's my own screenshot of it rendering my blog - https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mdg2oo6bms2... - it handles the layout and CSS gradiants really well, renders the SVG feed icon but fails to render a PNG image.

I thought "build a browser that renders HTML+CSS" was the perfect task for demonstrating a massively parallel agent setup because it couldn't be productively achieved in a few thousand lines of code by a single coding agent. Turns out I was wrong!

>>simonw+Yw
I think most people would agree that this is much more superior than Cursor's "browser" from an engineering perspective -- it doesn't do much but does it well, as you pointed out.

What it tells me is that "effectively using agents" can be much more important than just throwing tokens at a problem and see what comes out. I myself have completely deleted several small vibe-coded projects without even going over the code, because what often happens is that, two days after the code is generated, I realize that I was solving the wrong problem or using the wrong approach.

A coding agent doesn't care. It most likely just does whatever you ask it to do with no pushback. While in some cases it's worth using them to validate an idea, often you dig a deeper hole for yourself if you go down a wrong path in the first place.

>>g947o+b92
Yeah, I agree with all of what you wrote, how these are used seems (to me) to be more important than how they're built. If you don't know software engineering, a software engineering agent isn't suddenly gonna make you one, but someone who already knows the craft, can be very effective with one.

Amplifiers, rather than replacements. I think the community at large still thinks LLMs and agents are gonna be "replacing" knowledge, which I think is far from the truth.