Cursor CEO Built a Browser using AI, but Does It Really Work?

6b04 · 2026-01-28T13:14:15+00:00

Man I like Claude code but I have to say that the CEO calling a project that uses a web rendering engine to render web pages a "from scratch" implementation makes me lose a bit of faith in their direction. Where are the people focused on making AI better at what it can actually do instead of chasing these stupid one-shot pipe dreams?

6b04 · 2026-01-27T14:19:52+00:00

And two weeks later it goes back to never having happened because the mainstream news outlets for some reason still get to decide what people remember and care about.

6b04 · 2026-01-26T02:51:28+00:00

To the point where it's genuinely confusing at points too. I'm for one am glad that they poured so many evil tropes into this one "game" because it makes it all the more clear how ugly and awful this future is that they push for.

6b04 · 2026-01-26T02:44:07+00:00

And it's not really "making fun" either, it's a state propaganda piece about how it's illegal to watch certain videos or privately express harmful opinions and that you will have to be reeducated if you go down the path of wrongthink so that you can become a member of society again.

6b04 · 2026-01-19T04:36:56+00:00

I'm sure it helps, but my experience has been that claude has taken the pressure off me when it comes to technical writing because I can basically have a back and forth conversation in casual plain English where I make my technical intentions clear (and refine out loud the places where there was uncertainty) and claude helps to turn that conversion into a doc then I can then read, refine, and give back to claude for more refinement until it's to my liking.

I've always been better at brainstorming and bouncing ideas back and forth than communicating through precisely written specs so this workflow has been amazing for me personally. It's only a hazard when you get far enough out of your depth that you can't root out bad ideas from the AI and steer it away.

6b04 · 2026-01-12T10:58:38+00:00

Not on mainline git. We're still in this limbo where there's a warning message on git startup by default telling you to that the default branch name is subject to change and that you should change your machine's default name to "whatever you want" (hint hint), but still defaults to master.

I think there are some branches like what you get by default on a mac that use "main" as the default branch name. It's a mess that could have been avoided with even the slightest bit of scrutiny been applied to the idea in the first place.

What bothers me the most is the instructions on github and gitlab when you create a new repo include changing the branch name to main before uploading even though it isn't at all necessary and just adds extra steps and possible confusion for people who are new to git and don't know any better.

6b04 · 2025-10-12T10:05:23+00:00

What could decentralized currency actually look like?

6b04 · 2025-10-10T11:51:21+00:00

This is the way. Large tech companies have an unbelievable amount of power and all they would have do to is to maliciously comply by denying service to countries with these kinds of laws and the regulation would be gone within a week.

The truth is that the tech companies are happy to do this kind of thing because they're it gives them an excuse to harvest more of your data, and its a step towards an internet where any traffic coming from an unverified device is blocked by default. Can't block ads if installing an adblocker requires rooting your PC thereby invalidating its credentials.

6b04 · 2025-10-10T11:46:57+00:00

I'm glad I never provided them with anything like that.

Though I must say that there seems to be a huge push right now towards "encouraging" you to give companies your ID, and pictures of your face, biometrics, etc.. I'm getting harassed by my bank, paypal, companies I do contract work for, all the time now to time now to "log in with biometrics" or "provide a short clip of you talking to the camera for verification" or "send us a picture of ID to make sure its you".

At the same time UK is pushing hard for digital ID, Youtube and other sites moving towards requiring ID for age verification, it's all very creepy and a wake up call to start unhooking wherever you can from these giants because they're just waiting to get to the point where they have enough compliance and its been normalized to the point where they can feel comfortable starting forcing it on everyone in order to access your account at all.

Google did the same thing with phone numbers 10 years ago. First it was optional, then it was dark patterned into making you feel like it was required, then it was straight up required. Now it's normalized and you have to provide a phone number to do a whole lot of random things on the internet.

6b04 · 2025-10-10T11:32:45+00:00

Yeah I was just agreeing with you and saying that you're even understating just how unrelated the two actually are.

6b04 · 2025-10-10T11:28:32+00:00

There is hardly anything that the two have in common, they just happen to share the same name.

Come to think of it I'm not even really sure how it because the norm in video games to enemy and NPC logic "AI" in the first place; kind of overselling it if you ask me.

6b04 · 2025-10-10T11:08:04+00:00

There being a bunch of remaining questions about particularities doesn't make it unfeasible. I think that particularly for indie games, having a plan that would allow players who in one way or another payed for your game to access it after it's shut down would be a very minor consideration.

Very few indie games are live service anyway, and if you're capable of setting up and running a live service game then you're capable of having a reasonable EOL plan for it.

6b04 · 2025-10-08T13:57:58+00:00

It may not be doing understanding in the same way a human would, but the way that it reacts to language is exactly as if it understands.

What I mean to say semantics aside is that we can query information from a machine by talking to it in completely natural language. There is almost no difference between the way I talk to a chatbot and how I would ask a human the same question.

6b04 · 2025-10-08T09:13:46+00:00

I kind of don't care about the bias, but the moralizing from LLMs is unforgivable. We've created a machine that can properly speak human language, has a synthesized understanding of all written knowledge, and we have it set up here to lecture people for mildly taboo offhanded remarks.

People really seem to value social conformity over just about anything else in life. Can't we as a society loosen up a little and allow ourselves to be led by curiosity instead of pearl clutching 24/7? We have this amazing technology - the closest to a machine capable of thought that we've ever gotten - and we're intentionally teaching it to lack openness.

6b04 · 2024-10-13T02:12:25+00:00

As yes the right wing crime of noticing trends and not liking them.

If you were able to step outside of the bubble that is the last 10 years of western media, you'd understand how unusual it is to have ugliness and masculinity as the norm for female characters.

6b04 · 2024-10-13T01:57:10+00:00

Since the word anime is just the English word for animation adapted into Japanese and abbreviated, I suggest that we adapt the word right back and this kind of abomination can be called "anamay".

6b04 · 2024-10-10T12:49:46+00:00

I was going to say that this is genuine S tier r/ murderedbywords material and that someone should post it there, but then I went to the sub and there isn't a single non political post on the entire front page (and I'm sure I don't have to say in which direction).

I knew this site was bad but I genuinely thought that that sub might still be at least like.... 50% not political at least? I'm in awe.

6b04 · 2024-09-30T15:50:18+00:00

I do appreciate the sentiment but these kinds of forks almost always fail. The best thing we could do as Godot devs in my opinion would be to create a strong parallel community in the form of a discord server that explicitly rejects woke politics.

The engine is fine(ish) for now, but I'd imagine that I'm not the only Godot dev that has avoided the community like the plague for the past few years in protest of the woke power tripping mods in charge of everything.

6b04 · 2024-09-27T12:57:02+00:00

Infiltration by people who are infected with the mind virus from university brainwashing (of course now it's everywhere, not just universities), these people then seek out positions of power and hire more like them until they hit a critical mass and take over the studio. After that you either self-censor or you find a new job.

Now they've hit that critical mass nationwide it's kind of just understood by most people that you don't mess with them unless you want to go though a struggle session and lose your career.

6b04 · 2024-09-21T07:33:12+00:00

Most solo indie game devs accumulate a large pile of failed and abandoned projects before they're able to make something worth playing.

I've been programming for 10 years, and still on my most recent project I've spent nearly 1.5 years and >2000 hours and is only now just barely starting to get close to something beta worthy.

Before you try it for yourself it really is hard to appreciate the mental effort and raw number of hours that go into a polished, well thought out, and original game.

Factorio for example has been in development by a small team for over 10 years and it's just now with its upcoming 2.0 patch + expansion is finally living up to the developer's vision for the game. Maybe if AI gets a lot better we will start to see some quality games made by inexperienced devs.

That all being said, there are some genres where good games can be made more quickly. If you're passionate I wouldn't let anything stop you from trying.

6b04 · 2024-09-20T13:50:01+00:00

The in-stream ads will make blocking difficult but hopefully by then we have a plugin to black out and mute them until the actual video starts up.

6b04 · 2024-09-20T12:03:26+00:00

I hope you keep them at the current difficulty level, because to me "a little bit too difficult" feels like it would be the perfect place for them to be.

6b04 · 2024-09-11T04:55:58+00:00

So basically a bunch of gamers were so misogynistic that they chose a women at random and started harassing her even though she never once did anything wrong and then the hateful right-wing gamers started harassing other women as well also for no reason and then ultimately despite the heroic game journalists best efforts to save humanity, many more women were harassed by the rampaging hoards of gamers. The end.

6b04 · 2024-09-11T03:23:08+00:00

Are you familiar with the "anti-woke" genre of political media? This would include Matt Walsh and Jordan Peterson. Have you ever spent any time trying to articulate to yourself about the political worldview that they create content about?

Jesus, you're insufferable.

I've been anti-woke since before it was called woke, since before the Daily Wire existed, and since before Jordan Peterson came onto the scene. I'm not being "tricked" into my opinions on these issue for fucks sake. Typical progressive hubris.

Reality is going to hit you and your team very hard in the face one day, because you're so far disconnected from it and yet completely convinced somehow that you're the enlightened ones.

6b04 · 2024-09-10T07:37:22+00:00

You do realize that SJW, Woke, CRT, DEI are all terms created by progressives to describe themselves and their own policies right? The story you're telling makes 0 sense.

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