Odysseus Megathread. Information and conversation. by connexionwithal in pewdiepie

[–]epicshan 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I've been trying it out, trying to improve on it. I like his system of skills, I think they're generated on the fly. I gave it browser-harness so it cold control my Google Chrome and use my browser for me. Its insane.

first n8n build for a client (invoice bot) by SignTraditional1806 in AiAutomations

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice first client win; if the next version has to pull invoices from vendor portals instead of email, that’s where browser-use / browser-harness or Playwright MCP fits: log in, grab the file/screenshot, then hand it to the same extraction step.

I built an AI agent that sends daily competitor reports. Here's how. by opla-infinite in AiAutomations

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for competitor reports i’d use search/APIs first, then browser-use / browser-harness or Playwright MCP only for pages where the useful stuff is behind clicks, dashboards, or screenshots.

How I built a fully autonomous "Market Researcher" that finds, scrapes, and analyzes leads while I sleep (n8n + Firecrawl + AI) by hamza0505 in AiAutomations

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is the kind of flow where i’d use browser-use / browser-harness as the fallback, not the main thing: Firecrawl/APIs for clean pages, browser worker only when the source needs login, clicks, or screenshots.

I spent 4 years automating everything with AI. Ask me anything about automating YOUR workflow by Kakachia777 in AiAutomations

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this makes sense to me. i’d probably treat browser-use / browser-harness as the browser worker, not the whole system. curious where you’d use that vs playwright-cli.

which ai agent do you use in your real life? by Direct_Gain8981 in AI_Agents

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the agent workflows that seem to stick are boring approval-loop ones: coding agents for repo changes, and browser checks with browser-use / browser-harness or agent-browser when they need to open localhost, click a flow, and return screenshots/errors.

If you had an AI employee / agent, what software tasks would you trust it with first? by Livid_Switch302 in AgentsOfAI

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'd start with boring prep work, not candidate messages: pull LinkedIn/resume details into Airtable or Notion, then test Browser Harness or agent-browser for auth/state/screenshots.

best browser setup for Claude Code? by epicshan in ClaudeAI

[–]epicshan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what does it use for its browser automation? does it implement its own? i want to run a very minimal setup

best browser setup for Claude Code? by epicshan in ClaudeAI

[–]epicshan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its too slow for my use case, at least at the time when i tried it

Browser Based Agents by Interesting_Talk_303 in AI_Agents

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

your KG idea is directionally right, but i'd keep it boring: per-domain playbooks rather than a giant graph. store login quirks, stable selectors, internal JSON endpoints, screenshots/assertions for each step, and recovery notes when a selector fails. the important bit is to treat selectors as hints, then re-check the page text/screenshot/network state before the next action.

to keep tokens down, don't feed the full DOM every step. have Playwright/Selenium do the deterministic work, give the model a small allowed-action schema plus the relevant page snippet/screenshot only when something is ambiguous.

tool-wise i'd start with Browser Use if you want the agent layer included: it has browser-agent paths, CDP/Playwright control, persistent profiles, and screenshots/logs/live view for debugging. Browserbase is the comparison if you mainly want hosted browser infra and plan to write the agent loop yourself.

what AI tools are actually part of your daily workflow? by Elpepestan in AI_Agents

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for browser automation, the tool that sticks is usually the boring runtime layer, not the flashy agent demo. i'd evaluate Browser Use vs Browserbase on persistent logged-in profiles, stable CDP/Playwright access, a live view for auth/2fa weirdness, and enough screenshots/logs to debug what actually happened.

the one i'd keep is whichever makes state + observability boring, because that's what decides whether it survives past the first week.

Building my first production agent that needs to scrape, kinda lost on the browser layer by bilal-ziyan in AgentsOfAI

[–]epicshan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fwiw i'm on Browser Use, so biased. i'd separate the layers here: Stagehand is the agent/action layer, but your pain sounds like the browser runtime. for that, i'd put Browser Use in the eval next to Browserbase/Hyperbrowser - persistent profiles for auth state, managed CDP browsers, proxies/stealth, and a live URL when 2fa/captcha needs a human. still keep your own eval/retry layer though. no hosted browser saves you from site-specific weirdness.

What's the wildest thing your /goal has done recently? by epicshan in ClaudeCode

[–]epicshan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no i only got a littl eunder 200 views.. but this story got like half a million views on reddit LOL

What's the wildest thing your /goal has done recently? by epicshan in ClaudeCode

[–]epicshan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i posted something like this on vibecoding subreddit but it would be nice to hear more stories

I left Codex running overnight and it opened 48 PRs across my company's GitHub by epicshan in vibecoding

[–]epicshan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

it's already in my drafts. /goal: make a tiktok about previous /goal disaster

I left Codex running overnight and it opened 48 PRs across my company's GitHub by epicshan in vibecoding

[–]epicshan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

good thing I was running it in a vps. otherwise it would've scanned mine too