> 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.