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Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding by jcfrei on Thursday January 15, 2026 @07:51AM (#46631697)
Surely a smart implementation would just find the chromium source on github, do some cosmetic rewrites and strip out all none-essential features?
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Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding by simonw on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:09AM (#46634667)
You'd be able to see it doing that by looking at the transcript. You could then tell it not to!
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Re:Scaling long-running autonomous coding by snowmobile on Friday January 16, 2026 @06:28PM (#46653588)
I suppose Cursor forgot to tell their AI that, before claiming that it built everything "from-scratch"
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