Playwright + MCP - The Future of Test Automation or a New Layer of Chaos?
Automation Is Changing—Fast
For the last decade, browser automation has mostly meant:
write selectors → write assertions → maintain scripts forever
Playwright evolved this model with fast execution, cross-browser support, auto-wait, trace viewer, API and web in one tool. But even Playwright is still fundamentally deterministic.
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By deterministic, we mean that Playwright used to execute exactly what you tell it to do, in the form of test automation scripts. It did not understand context or intent.