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by vkuprin 97 days ago
Yeah, semantic anchors are definitely the right direction — [data-testid], aria-label, or text proximity tend to survive rebuilds much better than class paths. The picker leans towards CSS right now but that's something I want to improve.

The harder problem is auth-gated content — Instagram feeds, dashboards, paywalled pages. Browser Steps handles it today (you can script login flows), but honestly I think the real fix is AI-assisted interaction. A small cheap model that can find what you care about without needing a brittle selector at all. That's where I want to take this — less "maintain a CSS path", more "here's what I'm interested in, figure it out...