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dminiktoday at 1:09 AM1 replyview on HN

According to the twitter analytics you can see on the post (at least on nitter), the original

> We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor. It ran uninterrupted for one week.

tweet was seen by over 6 million people.

The follow up tweet which includes the link to the actual details was seen by less than 200000.

That's just how Twitter engagement works and these companies know it. Over 6 million people were fed bullshit. I'm sorry, but it's actually a great example of CEOs over hyping their products.


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simonwtoday at 1:28 AM

That Tweet that was seen by 6 million people is here: https://x.com/mntruell/status/2011562190286045552

You only quoted the first line. The full tweet includes the crucial "it kind of works" line - that's not in the follow-up tweet, it's in the original.

Here's that first tweet in full:

> We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor. It ran uninterrupted for one week.

> It's 3M+ lines of code across thousands of files. The rendering engine is from-scratch in Rust with HTML parsing, CSS cascade, layout, text shaping, paint, and a custom JS VM.

> It kind of works! It still has issues and is of course very far from Webkit/Chromium parity, but we were astonished that simple websites render quickly and largely correctly.

The second tweet, with only 225,000 views, was just the following text and a link to the GitHub repository:

> Excited to continue stress testing the boundaries of coding agents and report back on what we learn.

> Code here: https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender