Browser Use CEO: "browsers are dead" — CLI agents beat browser UIs 10x
annetgriffin · x · 2026-09-20
Asked why they don't ship a browser, Browser Use's Gregor Zunic said "browsers are dead and we have killed them" — he'd rather tell his computer what to do than click through a UI, claiming Browser Use CLI does it 10x better. The person quoting raises the key question: what are actual download and usage numbers for the agentic browsers launched last year?
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