If browser agents get reliable, what's the point of pricey APIs?
DevToD4 · x · 2026-08-14
Developer DevToD4 poses a sharp question: once browser agents become reliable, how long do expensive, constrained official APIs stay defensible?
They're already hitting real cases where teaching an agent to drive the browser beats paying for a rate-limited API, and ask: if agents can use software the way employees do, what exactly is the API gatekeeping?
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