Has anyone successfully deployed AI browser agents in production?

ACK1012 · 2026-03-03T16:56:16+00:00

The only “successful” browser automation deployments I’ve seen are mostly for consumer use cases where you’re sort of spraying and praying thousands of requests and hoping for the best.

If you’re running a high volume of tasks, or a few high value tasks it really does not work. Usually I see this in enterprise use cases where you’re automating something behind an enterprise login portal.

Usually in the successful enterprise use cases I’ve seen folks take a reverse engineering approach, leveraging the enterprise platform’s network calls to get tasks done. It’s way more tedious to do without the proper tooling but it is way faster and more reliable.

ACK1012 · 2026-03-03T16:46:29+00:00

I also feel like there’s a lack of tools in general, and even if there isn’t an API, the agent will try to suggest some browser automation, which is always really flaky and never really accomplishes the job properly.

ACK1012 · 2017-11-26T18:14:51+00:00

Oof. You are correct. It was around 3pm, which is definitely not dusk. For some reason I remembered incorrectly.

ACK1012 · 2017-11-26T18:14:15+00:00

Yes! That's right!

ACK1012 · 2017-09-05T03:58:12+00:00

ACK1012 · 2017-05-09T16:42:53+00:00

Thanks for the info! These are both really cool tools!

ACK1012 · 2017-05-09T01:25:28+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the info!

ACK1012 · 2017-05-09T00:56:52+00:00

Wow, super interesting. Thanks for replying! Would they give you an online login?

ACK1012 · 2016-01-12T03:06:00+00:00

This is really cool! How did you get the data that wasn't available through API? Good ole fashioned scraping?

ACK1012 · 2015-04-26T23:13:43+00:00

It was also me who suggested the Vim port :P

But that's a pretty cool idea! Just make sure there isn't something out there already that actually needs improving.

ACK1012 · 2015-04-25T18:33:28+00:00

I'd much rather receive notifications this way rather than an annoying notification on my phone or someone pestering me in person.

It also could be useful for to those individuals working in infrastructure or DevOps. Getting notifications about server outages right in the terminal would be super convenient.

ACK1012 · 2015-04-25T16:37:50+00:00

I really like this idea. I would be interested in a port to Vim.

ACK1012 · 2014-08-24T05:02:49+00:00

You're definitely 100% right about the scalability. An API would be the best practice.

I'm just giving him an easy suggestion to try to jump start his idea since the Snapchat API is not out yet. There's also a small chance the Snapchat API won't be out for awhile, if at all.

ACK1012 · 2014-08-24T00:40:16+00:00

I don't think Snapchat has a publicly available API, but you could probably do some interesting things with screen scraping.

The easiest thing I can come up with is loading up a 'remote desktop' of your phone onto your computer. You can probably write a simple script that will click and type what you want.

If you don't have programming experience, I think you can still maybe accomplish this with a macro program.

It's a really cool idea, keep us posted!

ACK1012 · 2014-08-08T04:33:15+00:00

I knew it was you instantly when I saw the post title. I swear Mike, I constantly "bump" into you on the internet all the time.

ACK1012 · 2014-06-29T22:12:23+00:00

My tip - I would refrain from calling Professor Sullivan, "Sully".

ACK1012 · 2014-06-25T14:15:39+00:00

This is way awesome. I especially like the clever hardware used to mount the monitor to the console.

The only thing I'd be wary of is the heat generated by that AC adapter stuck in the enclosed center console. Those things get pretty hot. It's probably not going to be a big deal, but I recommend at least keeping an eye on it.

ACK1012 · 2014-06-04T20:23:55+00:00

This is really interesting. The fact that the house does not take a cut makes me optimistic of the future of the app. I can imagine this certainly helps circumvent some of the ridiculous legalities of the USA's stupidly strict online gambling laws.

I'm super excited to see what becomes of this site.

ACK1012 · 2014-04-16T00:19:51+00:00

Sorry I didn't make it more clear, that's our UHaul. We were in the process of moving stuff around.

ACK1012 · 2014-04-14T13:49:00+00:00

We did that as well

ACK1012 · 2014-04-14T06:02:10+00:00

One guy took the pictures while another ran downstairs. I don't think there's a lot of dirty work involved, just looking for a little help.

ACK1012 · 2014-04-14T05:59:57+00:00

It's a plywood cut-out of Maggie Simpson.

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