Hi HN!

I've been building browser automation tools for several years now [0] so when Anthropic came out with Computer Use, I made a Chrome extension to try it out: https://autobrowser.ai

My general takeaways from building on Computer Use:

- It's fun to play around with but not yet reliable enough for real-world usage

- It's expensive! ("go to youtube and play a video about orcas" costs around $0.05)

- It performs WAY better if you send it screenshots after every action rather than waiting for it to ask you for one (but this also increases the cost)

This is a fun experiment so it's free to use with your own API key. Try it out and let me know what you think!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29254147