Corey J. Gallon

The Dark Arts of Web Automation: Teaching Agents to Use Websites Like Humans — Corey Gallon, Rexmore

Aug 14, 2026 · 21:38

Corey Gallon (Rexmore) argues that an agent driving Chrome via the Chrome DevTools Protocol is just a 'meat bag with a mouse'—and details his open-source Chrome Agent tool. Preparing the talk earned him an OpenAI ban threat after his agent cleared Cloudflare Turnstile, MT Capture, Lemon, and reCAPTCHA v2 with no human in the loop. He argues for CLI over MCP: both succeeded ~83% in an Arise AI study, but CLI took 7 turns and under a minute versus MCP's 71 round trips and 8 minutes, and CLI can be 75x cheaper in tokens. The method is a sense/act/verify loop up a three-rung ladder: synthetic clicks, trusted CDP input, then human mouse paths with jitter, deliberate overshoot. For reCAPTCHA, deterministic code drives and rearms each round while the agent names grid tiles, as speed beats expiration clocks.

The Cure for the Vibe Coding Hangover — Corey J. Gallon, Rexmore

Nov 24, 2025 · 57:02

Corey J. Gallon presents a framework to cure the 'vibe coding hangover'—the despair of building unmaintainable demoware with AI coding agents. He argues that treating AI as a pure productivity tool leads to brittle code and dependency, so his framework centers on ten principles: AI engineering as accelerated learning, the architect-implementer boundary, slowing down to go fast, specification over prompt engineering, defining 'done' before implementing, feature atomicity, dependency-driven development, implementing one atomic feature at a time, context engineering, and 'make it work, make it right, make it fast.' The process splits into a planning phase (vision capture, feature identification, iterative specification, dependency analysis, implementation plan) and an implementation loop that uses multisensory feedback (visual, auditory, tactile) to validate each atomic feature. This framework has been used to build real applications such as litigation support for law firms and real-time appliance monitoring.