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Case Study: Vibium — The AI-Native Bet
23.1Why Study a Tool You Probably Won't DeployVibium is Jason Huggins' — the creator of Selenium (2004) — attempt to rebuild browser automation from scratch for the agent era. As of…23.2The Design in Five Ideas1. A single Go binary as a BiDi proxy. One ~10MB binary launches Chrome, speaks W3C WebDriver BiDi over WebSocket, and exposes ~22 CLI…23.3Honest Scorecard (July 2026)23.4What Actually Happened to Its ThesisThis is the interesting part. Vibium's January 2026 pitch — CLI skills beat MCP on token economics — won the argument while the tool itself…23.5Interview Talking Point"Vibium is Jason Huggins' AI-native rebuild of browser automation — a Go binary speaking WebDriver BiDi, driven by CLI skills, with…