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by hugs 10mo ago
thanks!
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by hugs 10mo ago
it's named vibium for a reason.
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by hugs 10mo ago
google fell victim to one of the classic blunders. the most famous of which is inventing the transformer behind gpt but not productizing it first. but only slightly less well-known is this: letting puppeteer go without a plan.
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by hugs 10mo ago
i started the selenium project as just a js and python thing. but it got really popular in java circles. vibium will also be a big tent project and support ts/js, python, java, and as many other languages we can support, too. but i sta
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by hugs 10mo ago
it's just v1. good for experimenting, not for production (yet!). and yes, it's perhaps impolite and silently taboo for me to say it out loud, but "not being controlled by microsoft" is on the top 10 list of "why vib
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by hugs 10mo ago
which local models? (e.g. qwen, llama, mistral?)
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by hugs 10mo ago
there's generally only 3 ways to make money in browser automation: 1) test automation (my specialty) 2) data scraping / crawling 3) business/robotic process automation (e.g. back-office data entry, processing invoices, etc.)
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by hugs 10mo ago
thanks for using it! <heart-emoji/> i try to say this often, but it never feels like enough: yes, i started the project, but it's a relay race. i ran the first few laps, but the project has been going for 21 years now. there
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by hugs 10mo ago
i appreciate the persistence in getting an answer. :-) i was being a little too cute using "embrace" and "extend" in a previous comment (look up "embrace, extend, extinguish"). sorry about that. the big idea wi
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by hugs 10mo ago
i apologize, but i'll answer your question with a metaphor. i want to build an island resort and a bridge from the mainland to get there. do i build the island resort first or the bridge first? here's my thinking: if the resort
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by hugs 10mo ago
have plans for new year's eve?
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by hugs 10mo ago
100% yes. favorites?
43.
by hugs 10mo ago
thanks. if ai-assisted development is the future of software (and i think it is), it was important i put my money where my mouth is and develop it by doing exactly that.
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by hugs 10mo ago
one of the wild things about vibe coding is... i want to add that feature, but i'm slightly more interested in using the prompt/spec you might have used to create it, not the patch itself.
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by hugs 10mo ago
good feedback. thank you!
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by hugs 10mo ago
stagehand is good stuff!
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by hugs 10mo ago
not today. but the plan is to be very "big tent" and support as many options as possible.
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by hugs 10mo ago
"npm install vibium" installs the needed browser on install. right now, code-wise -- for the code you see in github at the moment -- it's just me and my ai pal, claude. but there's a growing cast of (human!) characters a
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by hugs 10mo ago
don't underestimate the "just clicking" use case!
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by hugs 10mo ago
it will be more obvious in v2. v1 is about getting to a base-line of functionality. things get interesting in v2: https://github.com/VibiumDev/vibium/blob/main/V2-ROADMAP.md
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by hugs 10mo ago
yes, yes it would!
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by hugs 10mo ago
> inject js, modify the DOM, and most crucially monitor/modify network requests not yet. definitely on the roadmap, though. goal is to embrace what playwright has done well, then extend what's possible...
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by hugs 10mo ago
good security will always be the eternal enemy of easy automation.
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by hugs 10mo ago
playwright got a lot of things right. one of the big ones was a fast websockets+json way to drive the browser. (vibium is using the w3c standard equivalent - webdriver bidi). but they also raised the bar on usability and developer experienc
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by hugs 10mo ago
for the entire testing tools industry, in some ways, selenium was the "final boss" to beat. every new tool had to trash selenium in their marketing. eventually those "hit points" added up. "fixing selenium" is
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by hugs 10mo ago
short term: yeah, we should totally add agent skills asap! new year's eve goal? as far as long term plans go, i like the tim o'reilly quote: "create more value than you capture". with selenium, we created an entire ecosy
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by hugs 10mo ago
> I do think Playwright is the defacto standard now i'll politely pushback a little. i think it's safe (at this moment in time) to say: playwright wins the first derivative, but selenium wins the "area under the curve&quot
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by hugs 10mo ago
> why the MCP server doesn't expose a JavaScript/eval tool? no reason other than my number #1 goal was "ship something". i only started the actual coding on dec 11. it's been a bit of a sprint the last two weeks!
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by hugs 10mo ago
yeah, looking to play more with (and support) skills with vibium soon.
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by hugs 10mo ago
i definitely have plans to expose more of the browser! at the moment, it's very limited. i'm not sure if anyone has completely nailed the context bloat problem -- it's worth more study and benchmarking. i suspect the long ter

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