The bitter lesson of browser agents (browser-use.com)

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Repeat ad nauseam across nearly the entire ecosystem of MCP tooling that sprung up over the last two years. Turns out all we ever needed was Bash.

For a while I was working on a browser for UI designers, which involved pretty heavy use of LLMs talking to CDP. In my experience, CDP is extremely token consumptive.