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Re: Scaling long-running autonomous coding

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"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 s…

That timeline feels aggressive but not impossible. The tooling has gotten scary good - I've seen so many people (including myself) prototype complex UIs in hours that would've taken weeks before. Browser engines are a real challenge though.

Re: Scaling long-running autonomous coding

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"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 s…

The goal I am currently using for long horizon coding experiments is implementation of a PDF rasterizer given an ISO32000 specification document.

I am currently using AI totry to improve pdfium to make it multithreaded and a few more features. Like partial network loading.

Re: Scaling long-running autonomous coding

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Web browser should be easy as source exists. Fix all SVG bugs in my browser tho...

There are 3.5 serious open codebases of web browsers currently. Only two are full featured. It's not nothing, but it's very far from "source exists so it's easy to copy what they do".

Ladybird and servo and quite a few older are also considerable
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