Browser agents need to show source coverage, not a confidence score, before you trust their tables
Thunderbit_HQ · reddit · 2026-08-18
The Thunderbit team describes a common failure mode for browser agents in production: extraction stops at the first page of a directory, yet the agent still produces a clean-looking summary, making missing rows easy to miss.
This shaped their product: the browser agent turns public pages into a reviewable table, with each row keeping its source URL, and the table is shown before export. It targets small web-data jobs where manual copying is tedious but a full scraper is overkill. The author asks the community what evidence should be visible before agent output moves downstream, arguing for source coverage over a single confidence score.
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