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ChatGPT Atlas notwithstanding, do you find yourself using these tools like Claude Code Web, Codex CLI etc. more than your llm utility? How would you say your usage of llm has changed over time?

You worry more about prompt injection than the most important security (and privacy) issue: data collection. The amount and quality of information in prompts is far bigger than any social network or Google receives. Or does the Atlas run models locally? Each prompt is a potential confession.

I'm just personally not that worried about the data collection side of things Prompt injection allows a malicious criminal to directly target me for harm - I find that a lot more concerning than OpenAI and co using my personal data for creepy personalized ads

It's not just about ads. It's more about what a dictatorial/fascist government could force OpenAI to do with your data. Remember that LLMs can analyse prompts for all kinds of things as they come in. You would not know about it until you are denied something or someone knocks at your door.

It's neat to see them encourage developers to add ARIA tags to pages though, an "agent" can be thought of as effectively another form of assistive technology

You may know that AI overlays to improve accessibility were the shiny new thing in UX -- except that there was massive (illegal) overpromising and underdelivering, leading to a class action lawsuit and a fine. techcrunch.com/2025/01/03/f...

I'm stuck on who it's for. Browsers are easy to use and most tasks done with them are already fast. If you want automatic stuff we do it with APIs much cheaper. Examples I've seen take more user time than it would have taken to just do it! What's the point apart from showing you can?

I suspect the 'showing you can' is a big part of it tbh (the browser agent part). I mean it seems to be a very neat trick without a very good use case. Security-wise it just seems like a recipe for disaster. I don't see how it could be locked down enough to let er rip in anything persistent

I work on websites and we make them for humans - if we only have to make them for computers to use it would be so much easier! I also just can't fathom why we would use a computer to access the HCI which is the hard part - making it hard for ourselves from both directions!

Did you notice the lack of the Signature headers in Atlas?

I did not! Which headers are missing?