I’ve been dealing with this problem for a while now. Build a puppeteer script that works great on staging, deploy it to production, and suddenly it’s failing because the page loads content asynchronously or the selectors shift around. The usual fixes are adding waits everywhere, but that just moves the problem around—your automation becomes slower and still fragile.
I’ve been experimenting with generating automation workflows from plain text descriptions instead of hand-coding everything. The idea is that if you describe what you’re trying to do in natural language, an AI can generate the actual puppeteer code with better handling for dynamic content right out of the gate. Less time debugging brittle selectors, more time on actual problems.
Anyone else dealing with this? How do you currently handle dynamic pages and asynchronous content loading in your puppeteer scripts? Are you just living with the brittleness, or have you found something that actually works?
Yeah, this is exactly why hand-coded puppeteer scripts break. You’re fighting the DOM directly, and every site’s different.
What changed for me was using a tool that generates puppeteer workflows from plain text descriptions. You describe what the page should do, and the AI builds the script with proper waits, retries, and dynamic selector handling built in. No more guessing at timing or brittle CSS selectors.
The real win is that you get a ready-to-run workflow immediately. No debugging, no tweaking waits. Just works on dynamic pages out of the box. That’s the whole point of having AI generate your automation logic—it handles the edge cases upfront instead of you discovering them in production.