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there are no guarantees in life, can look up any random day and see a meteor streaking across the sky and realize that this is the end regardless of "sociopolitical structures".

All that matters is sociotechnological progress to be able to progress further enough to overcome these tests of existence.


> look up any random day and see a meteor streaking across the sky

That's happened rather more times in Earth's history than most folks are comfortable admitting. Tunguska would have leveled any major metropolitan city on the planet. I still think an impact is one of the more likely initiators of the Younger Dryas abrupt cooling and worldwide ~100M sealevel rise ~12,000 years ago. Conspicuously aligned with the oldest surviving traces of city living, agriculture, etc. It's increasingly accepted that a large portion of human history is 100M underwater on the continental shelves, estuaries, and other coastal areas where humans would have liked to live.


Sea level rise was much faster before the cooling of the Younger Dryas.

You're right, and here's a graph: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_sea_level#/media/File:Pos...

It's possible the sea level rise could have initiated the cooling. But there is much disagreement as to what exactly initiated the de-glaciation which caused the sealevel rise.


We don't sell user data, and we are in it to build a generational company.

We already have 25k+ users and have an opensource extension as well: https://github.com/rtrvr-ai/rover/tree/main/apps/preview-hel...


cool clickbait, why is this useful?

It's not, it's a marketing blog post.

It's useful for only distinguishing the smart AI from deterministic scripts and humans (we don't want either). We are convincing OpenClaws to create api keys for free (we have a free tier specifically for those agents). So it's basically marketing blog post - but for OpenClaws

bro openclaw is dead

Yes exactly imagine now anyone, even non-technical people, can just prompt and interact with this hidden/deeper layer of the web, all in their regular browser!

Oh yes indeed

Hey thats a great idea, we will take a look into exploring this export option. But how would it save time by being a Playwright script?

Right now since we have a custom sandbox to re-execute the code in, we are using our own syntax and exposed methods. So even now you can edit the generated script.


We execute the code in a sandbox and proxy the fetch calls through main world!

We found Gemini Flash to be the sweet spot for both agentic actions as well as writing code. Even Flash-Lite is too hit or miss.

We are thinking through on self healing mechanisms like falling back to a live web agent and rewriting script.


The bigger goal is to build and maintain a global library of popular automations. Users can also quickly re-record and recreate the scripts to update.

Since it runs inside your own browser, there should be no captchas or challenges. On failure it can fallback to our regular web agent that can solve captchas.

Big picture wise with the launch of Mythos it might just become impossible for websites to keep up, and they will have to go like Salesforce and just expose APIs for everything.


Hey Muchael, we had similar thoughts at Retriever AI of moving from runtime agentic inference to writing scripts combining webpage interactions and reverse engineered site APIs.

Compared to your our approach, we are doing this entirely within a browser extension so meeting users where they already doing their existing work.

Within the extension just record doing a task, we reverse engineer the APIs and write a script. Then execute the script from within the webpage so that auth/headers/tokens get automatically added.

You can just prompt to supply parameters and reuse the script at zero token cost.

Use cases we were targetting is like Instagram DMs or LinkedIn connection requests but it should also work for your healthcare use case!

Deeper dive: https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/ai-subroutines-zero-token-determin...


Hey Alex, we had similar thoughts at Retriever AI of moving from webpage interactions to reverse engineering the underlying APIs.

Compared to your our approach, we are doing this entirely within a browser extension so meeting users where they already doing their existing work.

Within the extension just record doing a task, we reverse engineer the APIs and write a script. Then execute the script from within the webpage so that auth/headers/tokens get automatically added.

You can just prompt to reuse the tools at zero token cost.


Interesting. We essentially do the same thing, but with MITM. We have a chrome extension internally, but have found it's a bit of a clunky interface. Might be releasing one soon. The approach with executing script in webpage is interesting. Best of luck!

Yea would love to try out the extension! ITs always interesting to see everyone's design approach.

I really don't want to install an app on to my laptop, especially an MITM, so I think extension would be better.


cool . can you give me the link of the tool

The tool: https://www.rtrvr.ai/

Our recent technical write up on network discovery/ranking/codegen: https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/ai-subroutines-zero-token-determin...


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