let an agent drive your browser. it should be simple. it's not.

2026-07-18 02:19

let an agent drive your browser. it should be simple. it's not. most agent tools open a fresh browser or a separate profile. want to reuse your own? they copy your profile into the agent's, slow, and half the time your logins break. chrome 146 shipped CDP remote debugging (chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging). in theory, this lets an agent control your real window. i tested it. flaky on anything longer than a few minutes. weird bugs, no consistency. the move that works: a browser extension, like what manus does. install the playwright extension, connect it via playwright cli or mcp, and the agent drives your current window directly. same cookies, same logins, nothing new to launch. tested it through a long coding practice grind. didn't drop once.chromewebstore.google.com/detail/playwright-extension

had leftover grok-4.5 quota go to waste

weekly reset hit, last night pi accidentally went through the xAI endpoint. burned 33% in 2 hours. switched pi to grok build today. ran all day, only 38% gone. build billing rate feels way lower than xAI.

2026-07-18

A parent in china dropped 300K rmb on an AI certificate

lmao a parent in china dropped 300K rmb on an AI certificate. it's a completely worthless piece of paper. scammers are eating good

2026-07-17

Meituan shipped LongCat-2.5

. 1.6T params, ~48B active, native multimodal, aimed at long-horizon agents, trained start to finish on Chinese hardware. Images get quantized into multi-level discrete tokens, and that's where Visual Coding and 3D pick up. On the RL side, failed trajectories get turned back into verifiable training tasks. W4A4 inference, 43% faster prefill. Meituan's own evals put it between Claude Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.

2026-11-02

SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova Loop-9B-Preview.

It stacks layers instead of parameters. The decoder has 32 layers, but layers 4 through 27 run twice with shared weights, so a forward pass does 56 layers of work while the checkpoint stays at 9B. Their own eval numbers: 71.38 on BIRD-Dev and 13.72 on AutomationBench, both above Qwen3.5-27B. Terminal Bench is still behind.

2026-11-02