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The End of Copy-Paste Hell
I need to confess something that’s been driving me crazy for a year.
Every single day, I copy and paste URLs into ChatGPT. Not once or twice — we’re talking 50, 60, sometimes 70 times a day. Article links, product specs, documentation pages, GitHub repos. Anything I need the AI to understand goes through this mind-numbing ritual.
Open ChatGPT. Paste URL. Wait. Read response. Switch back to browser. Repeat.
It’s death by a thousand tabs.
That workflow died this morning when OpenAI dropped ChatGPT Atlas. And no — this isn’t just Chrome with an AI sidebar bolted on. This isn’t Edge with Copilot grafted onto the side. This is something fundamentally different.
I’ve been building software and leading engineering teams for over 15 years. I watched Netscape crumble, Firefox rise, Chrome dominate…