Imagine waking up to see the browser extension you spent months building, refining, and scaling completely break overnight.

That is exactly what happened to my extension, JobEasyApply. For months, job seekers used it to autofill job applications on LinkedIn. Then, in a single day, LinkedIn rolled out a massive frontend update.

Suddenly:

None of our selectors could find form fields.

Clicks programmatically dispatched to buttons did absolutely nothing.