Towards Data Science By Chien Vu Minh

Webwright: Why AI Web Agents Should Write Code, Not Click

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For years, web agents have worked one click at a time—and often fallen apart on long tasks. Microsoft Research’s Webwright makes a different bet: give the model a terminal and let it write the program instead.

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