Compiling Firefox to WebAssembly with ~$25k of Claude tokenThe chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.Full definition → — a data point on what long-horizon agentic engineering actually costs and where it breaks.
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token — The chunk of text a model reads and writes in — roughly three-quarters of a word — and the unit AI usage is billed in.
Key quotes
“This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser.”
“The project used an estimated $25,000 worth of Claude Opus and Fable tokens, but took advantage of a Claude Max subscription plan so cost much less in actual dollars.”
“Puter claim this supports end-to-end encryption and that looks to be true - I inspected the WebSocket messages and traffic to my own HTTPS site was encrypted whereas requests and responses to http://www.example.com/ were in cleartext.”
