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A specialized web agent scored 41.7 on WebRetriever while GPT and Claude failed the same form-filling task

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General-purpose LLMs are bad at browser automation. I spent the last few months working with various computer-use agents, and the performance gap between specialized models and general ones is way bigger than most people expect. Heres a concrete example. On WebRetriever Protocol I, a benchmark that…

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  1. 2026-09-17 10:53 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    A specialized web agent scored 41.7 on WebRetriever while GPT and Claude failed the same form-filling task

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