> A problem that would be impossible for a single person five years ago suddenly seems "almost possible" when you can work at a higher level and have the pesky "code" details taken care of for you.

It was already possible - The Ladybird browser started with one person and then a team of experts in maintaining browsers joined in. It makes a lot of sense for them to try to build one from scratch; with / without AI.

The problem which applies to all non mainstream browsers: Is anyone going to use your browser over the established ones because of some technical detail such as, who wrote it or what it is written in?

99.999% of people only care about whether if it just works and disappears away from the user whilst they're using it as a daily driver for browsing or doing work.

How is AI surely going to make this better the other than inexperienced folks throwing PRs they have not read? In fact, it helps the experts rather than the vibe coders.

> It was already possible - The Ladybird browser started with one person and then a team of experts in maintaining browsers joined in. It makes a lot of sense for them to try to build one from scratch; with / without AI.

Yes, by a person with prior browser-making experience and who was also building his own operating system. It's not that weird that people who know how to make browsers started making browsers.

Most people don't know how to make browsers, but doing so is still tempting. LLMs lower the barrier to entry tremendously.

To be clear, I'm not giving a value judgement to this; I'm not saying this is "good", just the why of it.