SMRTR ProgrammingMay 6, 2026lobste.rs

cursed_browser: A web browser with no rendering engine — the VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page

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Cursed Browser replaces traditional HTML rendering by feeding page code to an LLM, which then "imagines" and draws each page — making every load unpredictable. A V2 is reportedly oversubscribed at $200M.

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