Dev Tools · 17h ago
AI coding agents still need humans to see and click UIs
A developer building Chrome extensions with AI agents found that agents can write code but cannot visually verify or interact with UIs. The manual loop of build, load, screenshot, and paste into chat becomes tedious, especially for UI polish. To solve this, the author built KamoX, a local HTTP API that wraps Playwright and platform-specific tooling into a unified interface for agents.
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The article highlights a real gap in AI-assisted development: agents lack visual feedback loops, but the proposed solution is a niche tool that may not scale beyond the author's own workflow.
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