Building Browser Agents, Infrastructure and Open-source tools for the web economy I Enginears Podcast

About this episode

Catherine Jue discusses the challenges and innovations in building web browser agents at Kernel.

Catherine Jue, co-founder at Kernel ( https://www.kernel.sh/ ) Kernel are building web agents in a crazy fast, open source way for them to be able to access the internet. We're going to be talking about the technical, product, and business challenges that throw up something as ambitious as this. As we always do, we'll be getting to know the founder behind the idea, or the leader behind the idea. -> Building a web browser agent and uncovering the use cases and capabilities -> From millisecond speeds to cloud infrastructure at scale we break down some of the engineering challenges that exist at Kernel that you're trying to solve on a day-to-day basis. -> The challenges in building a web browser agent and user / security adoption. -> Introducing Managed Auth: a standardized way for agents to log in and stay logged in across the internet. ( https://x.com/usekernel/status/2021581721280401709 ) -> Who and how they are hiring. If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juecd/ Powered by Artifeks! https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitment https://www.artifeks.co.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiter…

People in this episode

Host: Enginears

Guest: Catherine Jue

Topics covered

• web agents
• open source
• engineering challenges
• user adoption
• cloud infrastructure
• managed authentication

Keywords

• web economy
• browser agent
• open source tools
• technical challenges
• product development
• security adoption
• cloud infrastructure

Sponsors

Artifeks

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kernel, Ausha, LinkedIn, Twitter

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