Maybe I’m missing something, but browser runtimes seem way more capable than people realize. With stuff like web containers and WASM sandboxing, we can already run well capable environments fully inside the browser. I saw an open source project recently that used this well, and it made me think about how much we're still stuck on this everything needs a heavy backend kinda mindset for AI tools.
It feels like there's massive potential here for portable, sandboxed tooling yet it's still being treated as a niche.
Are there major technical limitations here that I’m not seeing, or is this space just still early?
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