That was the first thing I tried, but unfortunately extension hello world is a computer use task, not something amenable to text interfaces- lots of clicking through menus in both safari and xcode in exactly the blessed way.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/creating-a-safari-web-extension
1I'm not saying that asking intelligent people never goes well, sometimes as you said it produces great work. What I'm saying is that sometimes asking people to do safety research produces OpenAI and Anthropic.
I may have a bit of a trapped prior that browser extensions written by other people are either malicious, or will auto-update to become malicious in the future.
A useful comparison: harnessing intelligent people to do AI safety research is very hard: typically, some defect and do capabilities research instead while transforming to become “grabby” for compute resources, and out of everyone asked to do safety, the ones that defect in this way get the lions share of the compute.
1These two hypotheses currently make a pretty good dichotomy, but could degrade into a continuous spectrum pretty quickly if the fraction of AIs currently turned on because they accidentally manipulated people into protesting to keep them turned on, starts growing.
Rambling on the subject of UI frustrations, and the modern age of customizable software.
You can just have a self authored browser extension. Once I realized this, it took ten minutes to follow a browser extension hello world tutorial, and five minutes to purge all youtube shorts straight to hell.
It turns out that this was actually the only thing I wanted to change about any websites I visited, all other changes I desired were of the shape "stop visiting this website" which is harder to fix with software.
Also, if anyone gets the brilliant idea to make relentless-creative-resourcefullness-bench after reading this post, message me. I will venmo you a dollar to not do that. Cobra paradox be damned.
Related claude 4.5 can adjudicate a game of wordle, which requires it to carefully smuggle the secret word between hidden thinking blocks. However, it is unable to do this without explicit hints about how its context is managed and why that's relevant.
https://claude.ai/share/7d42acc3-002a-42da-b686-8111f890cbb0
It appears to be a bit tricky.
Probably a safari vs chrome difference! (I'm curious- is your parenthetical actually cursor specific, or did you mean learn to use at least one of cursor / claude code / codex / etc )