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not so much that the claude-written code necessarily has firefox-related bugs, but more than nobody involved in making the software actually gives a shit about testing that it works in anything but their agentic environment

front-end code is both the most tempting target for programmers to want to replace with AI, and also the hardest to fix AI's fuckups on, because bugs are subtle and can't be caught with easy boilerplate tests

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Devs trying to avoid front-end barely understand the front-end code they wrote themselves, even less code written by another human, so code written by AI might as well be magic. Good luck to any actual human fixing anything