Nathaniel Whittemore

The average person won't Google, click, compare, or fill out forms within the next 24 months.

They'll just say book my trip, find me a job, launch my store, and the agent will do 20 steps behind the scenes.

That means whole industries, travel, e-commerce, real estate, insurance, education, are about to get rebuilt around outcomes instead of pages.

If you're a founder, this is the moment to think in verbs.

You won't go to Expedia, you'll just get the trip.

The web is shifting from human browsing to agent doing.

Now, this is the bet that a lot of people are making is the trajectory of the internet.

Less human browsing, more agent browsing, and things are slowly or quickly, depending on your perspective, being redesigned around agents doing things on people's behalf.

And yet, not everyone had so rosy a take on the browser.

Ben Heilack initially tweeted, I'm not sure it'll be successful, but the level of polish on ChatGPT Atlas is just way higher than anything they've shipped in recent memory.

Which he followed up a few hours later with, I take this back.

Everything just feels really janky, lots of little missing features.

I can't get used to the address bar search box thing, the ChatGPT sidebar being the thing that opens when I click the sidebar is just insane to me.

It's a confused app.

Now maybe a more discreet line of critique had to do with privacy.

Tiffany Fong wrote, If you liked OpenAI downloading the internet, you'll love OpenAI downloading your personal data.

Aidan Bai had the same thought, saying, Pretty sus way to collect massive amounts of data to train computer use.

Definitely not spyware, trust me bro.

Now, it should be noted that hold aside any sort of tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

One of the next frontiers for the model companies is absolutely collecting data that comes from real human usage patterns.