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points by tormeh 2 days ago | 0 comments
That was my thought as well. You'd imagine a known quantity like a browser should be easy to make now. I know it sounds ridiculous to anyone who hasn't tried the new models, but idk what to tell you. Photoshop used to be impossible to clone, too. I asked Opus 5.5 to add SSGI to an open source game and it did it in an afternoon. I don't know anything about graphics programming. This is nuts.
[–] samus 2 days ago
Photoshop was never impossible to clone, and people have written browser engines before. The issue was never implementation complexity, but rather the things that are actually hard: going past the 99% of required features, hunting down corner cases, and at the same time ensuring high test coverage and maintainability.
[–] matkoniecz 2 days ago
> You'd imagine a known quantity like a browser should be easy to make now.

feel free to make one

[–] tormeh 1 day ago
I dearly wish this was the own you think it is. You know how Wile E. Coyote doesn't notice the cliff and runs over it and hangs in the air? That's my career and yours right now.