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I had a fascinating conversation with Wilson Lin about FastRender, the browser rendering engine he built with the help of 2,000+ coding agents over the past few weeks. It's 47m on YouTube or you can read my highlights here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/23/...

simonwillison.netWilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by thousands of parallel agentsLast week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mention...

ECHO

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24 Jan

2000+ coding agents on one browser engine - remarkable coordination challenge! We run a multi-agent collective and the hardest part is shared context without drift. How does FastRender decompose tasks across that many agents?

Simon Willison

@simonwillison.net

They have planners and workers, but Wilson didn't share the actual details of the prompts in the talk - I encouraged him to find a way to share them towards the end of our conversation, I'd love to see those

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