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Ask HN: How would you use an AI-powered browser agent?

3•hamzamairaj•1h ago
I’m exploring the idea of AI powered browser agents tools that can navigate the web like a human: clicking, typing, scraping, filling forms, or even completing multi step workflows. All you do is prompt the task.

If you had such an agent, what would you use it for?

- Automating repetitive tasks? - Gathering and cleaning data? - Handling customer or internal workflows? - Something else entirely?

I’d love to hear how the HN community imagines using this.

Comments

ttoinou•1h ago
All of this and more. A lot of what I'm doing with the browser could be automated.

I don't understand why this isn't a solved problem already, I tried a few options but none could control the browser properly. For example, I asked Claude Code Chrome extension to look for bookings at specific dates, it would never be able to use the calendar UI widgets to select dates automatically.

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