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It's a difficult, large problem - but one with very extensive tests available and that LLMs have a good understanding of. You can also look up the earlier autom
by furyofantares 9mo ago
It's a difficult, large problem - but one with very extensive tests available and that LLMs have a good understanding of. You can also look up the earlier automated ports of the JustHTML parser. A rendering engine is the next (admittedly large) step.
I say this as someone who also took on this task, about a week before I saw Cursor's attempt.
- embedding-shape 9mo ago> I say this as someone who also took on this task, about a week before I saw Cursor's attempt. What was the results? As far as I can tell, less agents work better, paired together with someone who knows solid engineering.
- furyofantares 9mo agoI didn't use my skills really to guide it, beyond knowing what test suite exists, and knowing it could reliably port a good HTML/CSS parser (to golang). I burned through a week of codex max subscription quota with it making slow progress. Slower than I wanted, but consistent slow progress. Not long after though it hit a brick wall and the second week+ of quota did not really make much progress. It can churn for hours and get one test working, or churn for hours and fail. I might give it a go with more guidance, because I actually really would like an html/css renderer with some specific properties about how I interact with it from code.