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Re:For Computer Use, the harness matters as much as the model on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:42PM (#49834193)
Are there results comparing agents running different tools (agent-browser, playwright MCP, browse CLI), or is this mostly Stagehand focused?
Re:We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient on Friday September 18, 2026 @01:05PM (#49757207)
I tried this myself - my conclusion was the overhead of parsing a screenshot, generating an action, and being limited to headful mode is much less efficient than reading accessibility trees & generating CDP commands.

basically, browser automation is a closer-to-the-metal abstraction than computer use, allows more flexibility, and ends up being much cheaper at scale!

Cool launch. Assuming you guys view email (and therefore SMTP) as becoming the de facto agent communication protocol in the long run. My question — why not something bespoke, similar to OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol or x402 from Coinbase?
Re:Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents on Thursday July 31, 2025 @03:47PM (#44749374)
Why build with email now? Isn’t the world moving towards voice / live-chat paradigms?