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Muse's utility has significantly dropped with the blockages.
To become truly useful again they will need to use residential proxies, but I can't see them use those due to the risks and reputational damage.
Only theory is team wanted this out before perf/promo reviews to kick it over the line and then its not their problem
- lower input/output token pricing
- the cached token price is $0.0028/Million tokens, which is like 50-90% of tokens
- you sell to websites an in-app agent
- why not just have them give you API spec, why reverse engineer their APIs?
A bit longer term, would you see yourself competing with WebMCP then? Because the website can just expose those APIs to any browser agent
honestly better than gemini flash
Its the ridiculous cached input token price of $0.00028/1 M
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/comments/1twesxe/comment/o...
Literal race on twitter posting to increase token throughput and drive down costs on these Chinese open source models
If all of global spend on Anthropic/OpenAI/Gemini APIs just switches over to DeepSeek then easily we can decrease total AI spend by 10x
The Codex computer use functionality actually uses OS level accessibility trees, so thats also possible without screenshots.
With Retriever AI, we construct custom accessibility trees to represent web pages and just switched over to using DeepSeek v4 Flash and its nearing 100x cost decrease.
We also had great success just reverse engineering the underlying APIs of websites and then writing code to hit them. This approach of using screenshots to take actions on a webpage to trigger the underlying network calls the website is making seems too naive.
Trump administration friends get free passes on environmental laws, but anyone not pushing their narrative is getting curbstomped till they change their tune.
Come speak up against this regulatory retaliation and voice your support for Anthropic's Fable release.
We are meeting at a public plaza in front of their office to show support and discuss AI policy with free chai!
What do you think of just reverse engineering the network requests and writing scripts to hit the underlying APIs that the browser is making instead of tackling at the browser automation layer?
Maybe with the corp token spending limits and the rise of codex, Anthropic saw steep deceleration in usuage?
I embedded a Google Calendar widget on my Book a demo page, I don't know the API and Google doesn't expose/maintain one either.
What we are doing at Retriever AI is to instead reverse engineer the website APIs on the fly and call them directly from within the webpage so that auth/session tokens propoagate for free: https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/ai-subroutines-zero-token-determin...
All that matters is sociotechnological progress to be able to progress further enough to overcome these tests of existence.
We already have 25k+ users and have an opensource extension as well: https://github.com/rtrvr-ai/rover/tree/main/apps/preview-hel...
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 are thinking through on self healing mechanisms like falling back to a live web agent and rewriting script.
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.
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...