About AI browser agents for computer use, from someone who built a browser-automation extension.
Has this happened?
Yes 76 (61%)Not sure 24 (19%)No 24 (19%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About AI browser agents for computer use, from someone who built a browser-automation extension.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I actually built a Chrome extension that runs Claude computer use if you’d like to try it out! [0] It’s currently awaiting approval in the Chrome Web Store.
After having spent the last several years building a popular Chrome extension for browser automation [1], I was excited to see if LLMs could actually build automations end-to-end based on a high-level description. Unfortunately, they still get confused quite easily so the holy grail has yet to come. Still fun to play around with though!
[0] https://autobrowser.ai/
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254147