What makes browser and computer-use agents unreliable, and how do you make them robust?

Agents that drive a browser or screen fail in ways chat agents never do: stale DOM, dynamic pages, wrong clicks. The signal is the grounding and reliability techniques that turn a flaky demo into something usable.

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Agent Engineering·Trusting nothing the agent readsSign in13mWhat a sandbox buys, and the exit everyone leaves openAgents that write code or drive a browser need somewhere to run that is not your machine. What isolation actually contains, why the network is the exit that matters, and how to decide the blast radius before the run rather than after.Agent Engineering·The ecosystem you will be asked aboutPremium14mThe four agents companies actually buildCoding, browser, research and data agents are where most agent work and most agent hiring is. Each has one property that dominates its design, and knowing which one is what separates a specific answer from a generic one in an interview.

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