One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch
Just for the fun of it, I thought I'd embark on a week-long quest to generate millions of tokens and millions of lines of source code to create one basic browser that can render HTML and CSS (no JS tho), and hopefully I could use this to receive even more VC investments.
But then I remembered that I have something even better: a human brain! It is usually better than any machine at coordinating and thinking through things, so let's see if we can hack something together, one human brain and one LLM agent brain!
Demonstration of one-agent-one-browser running with a bunch of different websites on Linux/X11
The above might look like a simple .webm video, but it's actually a highly sophisticated and advanced browser that was super hard to build, encoded as pixels in a video file! Wowzers.
Day 1 - Starting out
For extra fun when building this, I set these requirements for myself and the agent:
I have three days to build it
Not a single 3rd party Rust library/dependency allowed
Allowed to use anything (commonly) provided out of the box on the OS it runs on
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