alt Hacker News"To test this system, we pointed it at an ambitious goal: building a web browser from scratch."
I shared my LLM predictions last week, and one of them was that by 2029 "Someone will build a new browser using mainly AI-assisted coding and it won’t even be a surprise" https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-202... and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVDhQMiAbR8&t=3913s
This project from Cursor is the second attempt I've seen at this now! The other is this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1q4xfm0/over_chr...
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The goal I am currently using for long horizon coding experiments is implementation of a PDF rasterizer given an ISO32000 specification document.
Great, they can call it "artificial Internet Explorer", or aIE for short.
2029? I have no idea why you would think this is so far off. More like Q2 2026.
Time to raise the bar. By 2029 someone will build a new browser using mainly AI-assisted coding and the surprise is that it was designed to be used by pelicans.