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I mean it worked, if scaling doesn’t stop and it can do this non stop at GPT Ultra speeds, this whole task will be done in weeks, maybe lesser. Doesn’t refute my point, ladybird is unfortunately going to be a pointless project soon. Though I guess if you have fun, who cares.

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No, because the bottleneck isn't just model speed. The model has to literally compile the engine and run the massive test suites. Some of that could be sped up if you had a real build farm instead of my little computer, but there's a limit to how much you can parallelize things. And remember, I was porting WebKit, not remaking it, which would be orders of magnitude more work.

So you're not going to get to "build me an original web browser from scratch, make no mistakes" and get a new app the next morning or even next week, I don't think.

I'm doing a web browser from scratch, no web or js engine reused (only general-purpose libraries allowed), in my spare time/tokens on a Claude $100 sub.

After a month or so, many simple sites work, and now the bottleneck is the stupid amount of JS sites use for everything, and Cloudflare which doesn't like someone using a non-officially-approved browser.

Absolutely not a replacement for Chrome or Ladybird, but it can be done already.

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