Calling Arc out.

And let’s not forget: they weren’t even making a fucking browser. They were making a fancy chromium skin. Because the role of a browser, at its core, is to make network requests, parse HTML, render CSS, and run JS. They weren’t interested in taking care of those things. They were happy to let other people do that work which, for a company called “The Browser Company” that thinks that:


the browser is the most important software in your life — and it wasn’t getting the attention it deserved


Is quite telling. And in the blog post, he even tried to gaslight everyone by saying “That’s why most browsers don’t dare to try new things. It’s too costly. Too complex to break from Chrome”. If that’s the case Josh then explain to me why a project like Ladybird is managing to make progress in precisely that direction with probably a fraction of the manpower and financial resources you had.

On Browsers, AI, and the web – Manu

This is true and I am ashamed I didn't pick on this insight.