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Automating a Browser with Anthropic's Computer Use to Play Tic-Tac-Toe [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFONF4PqCLw
1•cbromann•1h ago

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cbromann•1h ago
What if an AI could actually use the browser — not through brittle scripts, but by seeing the UI and deciding where to click?

In this video, I explain how modern agent tools work and demonstrate it live by letting a model *play Tic-Tac-Toe in the browser*. The agent takes screenshots, reasons about the UI, and interacts with the page step by step — very different from traditional WebDriver-style automation.

I use this demo to unpack: - How AI-driven UI interaction works under the hood - Why provider-native tools enable more reliable agent behavior - How this differs from classic, deterministic browser automation - Where this approach makes sense — and where it definitely doesn’t

If you’ve built browser automation, testing frameworks, or agentic systems, this should give you a concrete mental model for where things are heading.

  Tic-Tac-Toe demo repository:https://github.com/christian-bromann/tictactoe