Why 99% Accurate Browser Agents Still Fail — Derek Meegan, Browserbase

תקציר מקורי באנגליתA browser agent that's 99% accurate per step succeeds only about 36% of the time over 100 steps. Here's how to beat that math. Derek Meegan, software engineer at Browserbase, explains what separates a browser-agent demo from thousands of unattended production runs. He covers how agents see the web (text, screenshots and code), why cost builds up with every step while value only comes at the end, and why you should measure success per transaction, not per run. Then he walks through a real architecture for automating a health insurance portal: deterministic tools, OCR verification, pulled-out authentication and skills that keep the agent on the critical path. In this talk: • The three ways agents interact with the browser • Why compounding step risk kills long trajectories, and how retries c