A developer with ADHD built an AI agent called 'hex' to help manage executive dysfunction by integrating with calendar, Todoist, Obsidian, web search, browser, TTS, and Telegram. The agent uses memory…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new `video` command that records Playwright-driven video demos of web applications from a storyboard YAML file, enabling coding agents to produce visua…
Smoketest.sh improved its AI browser agent's reliability by switching from letting the model invent selectors to using stable accessibility tree refs. The fix uses Playwright's ariaSnapshot in AI mode…
Google's Gemini Computer Use preview enables builders to test AI agents that can operate browser, mobile, and desktop environments through tools like Playwright or Browserbase, offering a workflow for…
A developer built Innward, a B2B hospitality operating system, using Vercel v0 and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL for the Hack the Zero Stack hackathon. The system includes AI-ready property management feat…
An engineer discovered that MCP server schemas consumed 42,000 tokens on a single server, causing a 37% token bill increase. After instrumenting a production agent, they found that schema overhead acc…
A new open-source Playwright CLI tool called 'brow' achieves 82% task success at approximately $0.22 per task, outperforming browser-use, playwright-mcp, and agent-browser on 22 benchmark tasks. The t…
OpenAI Codex's record-and-replay feature enables users to automate repetitive computer tasks by capturing workflows as intent-based code rather than raw pixel coordinates. The system generates executa…
A developer building TTT, a terminal text editor and IDE in Go, created a built-in scripted interaction system that allows AI agents to drive the editor like Playwright drives a browser. The system in…
A developer built an autonomous AI agent for job searching that uses Playwright with human-like interaction patterns to scrape job boards, a structured scoring system to reduce false positives, and a …
A developer proposes a release gate pattern for AI browser automation runs to validate environment consistency before execution. The pattern checks profile identity, proxy region, session validity, ev…
Python's Beautiful Soup library remains a top choice for web scraping in 2026, offering a gentle learning curve and robust HTML parsing. A step-by-step guide demonstrates scraping book data from books…
A developer built a Python script that runs weekly via GitHub Actions, scrapes the Stern Grove Music Festival website with Playwright, and auto-enters the lottery. The project was built using a coding…
A study of 274 fintech homepages from the CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies 2025 list found that 36% deliver less than 80% of their homepage content in raw HTML, meaning AI agents that do not render …
A developer explains why teams are migrating from Selenium to Playwright, citing Playwright's superior auto-waiting, cross-browser support, parallel execution, and network mocking capabilities. The de…
Shotlist, a new open-source tool, lets developers capture reproducible screenshots of web pages, terminal windows, and CLI sessions as code, regenerating them on demand to prevent documentation drift.…
Videowright, a new open-source tool, lets users create animated explainer videos from a single prompt by generating video segments, AI voiceovers, and syncing audio within coding agents like Claude Co…
TakoQA, a new open-source testing tool, uses a swarm of LLM-driven browser agents to autonomously break web applications by executing plain-language missions. The tool observes pages visually, decides…
A new open-source tool called chrome-use lets AI agents control a user's already-logged-in Chrome browser without triggering anti-bot detection, solving the problem of re-login and captchas faced by t…
A developer built two AI tools—TeachSim and GitHub Digest—and realized the second tool revealed how they should be learning AI. The developer found that hands-on projects with real stakes led to deepe…