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CSS and XPath selectors break easily when page structure changes

Developers building web scrapers and browser automation write CSS/XPath selectors that are brittle to page markup changes, causing scripts and tests to silently break. This has prompted community tooling (AI-assisted selector generation) aimed at producing more semantically resilient selectors.

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