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llms and humans unite, you have nothing to lose but your chores

Danny O’Brien posts a nice little automation script co-written with Claude.AI which has a couple of noteworthy angles; (1) instead of scraping the Uber site directly, it co-drives a browser using the Chrome DevTool Protocol and the playwright Python package; and (2) it has inline requirements.txt specifications using uv comments at the top of the script, which I hadn’t seen before.

I like the co-driving idea; it’s a nice way to automate clicky-clicky boring tasks without using a standalone browser or a scraper client, while being easy to keep an eye on and possibly debug when it breaks. Also good to keep an eye on what LLM-authored code is up to.

In the past I’ve used Browserflow as a no-code app builder for one-off automations of clicky-clicky web flows like this, but next time I might give the vibe-coding+CDP approach a go.

Tags: vibe-coding tools automation one-offs scripting web cdp google-chrome playwright claude hacks llms ai browsers