Why OpenAI's New Browser Has Me Torn
OpenAI's Atlas browser is one of those products I wanted to love immediately, because the idea of having AI baked into the browser lines up with how I already work. After spending time with it, though, I ended up torn: the direction is exciting, but the current experience still feels short of replacing Comet for my day-to-day workflows.
In the video, I break down the difference between browsers that summarize what you are viewing and browsers that can actually act across pages. That matters because Atlas has memory and OpenAI momentum behind it, but it still struggles with the kind of chained commands, profiles, sync, and repeated workflow handling that make an AI browser feel truly agentic.
My takeaway is not that Atlas is bad. It is that OpenAI is clearly moving fast, and this could become powerful quickly, but right now the browser is more "almost there" than "switch today" for the way I use AI tools.
