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Amazon recently sued Perplexity over Comet, their AI agent that automated shopping on Amazon.com . Comet acted like a human browser, buying products without explicit permission — and right now, there’s no HTML signal to tell an agent "don’t do that." At Pendless , we're particularly concerned because we see the incredible potential of our tools for lightweight, responsible browser automation. Not only can our agents safely handle single tasks like clicks or form submissions, but they can...

Automating tasks in a browser using AI can be approached in several ways, each with its own trade-offs. Broadly, there are three techniques: screenshot-based automation, headless browser automation, and the approach Pendless uses. 1. Screenshot-Based Automation This method captures what the user sees and interprets it via AI. On the surface, it seems simple: you’re working directly with the visual representation of the page. However, the reality is more complex. Dynamic content: Moving...

I’ve always said that even the best engineering team, if trapped in a bubble of its own ideas, can build amazing systems but still miss the features users actually want. That happened to us right after launch. We focused on model routing, output stabilization, context handling, and deterministic workflows. Meanwhile, users were asking one simple thing: “Great tool, but why is everything plain text?” Pendless with a readable summary of the CNN homepage, including links We had avoided Markdown...