ChatGPT Atlas: Dud or Revolution? (Full Guide)

How to get the MOST out of OpenAI's new agentic browser

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ChatGPT Atlas: Dud or Revolution? (Full Guide)

I’ve been using ChatGPT Atlas nonstop the last few days and have a few thoughts on how to get the absolute most out of it.

First of all, a review:

Is it a gamechanger and significantly better than Chrome or Comet? No.

Is it a tool you can use to learn how to incorporate AI into everything you do? Yes absolutely. And that’s enough to make it VERY usable and something everyone should try.

The most powerful part of ChatGPT Atlas is it integrates AI/your ChatGPT memories into everything you do. This is actually massive.

First, no matter where you are on the internet, you have instant access to ChatGPT. I think the biggest thing holding people back from getting the most out of AI is simply not using it enough. You should be incorporating it into EVERYTHING you do. I challenge myself through the day to incorporate GPT5 into as many tasks as humanly possible.

The moment I start a new task I think “How can I use GPT5 to make this better?”

Now that you have an ‘Ask ChatGPT’ button on screen no matter where you are, it makes it more difficult to NOT use AI.

For the past few days I’ve challenged myself to use that button as much as I can. For instance, I was scrolling X yesterday and someone tweeted out an idea for an app (seen below.) I immediately hit the Ask ChatGPT button which automatically pulled in all the context from my screen including that tweet.

I then asked Chat how I could build out the idea and what the business model would be. It gave me a full rundown and I immediately swapped over to Claude Code and started building.

This is the power of having AI integrated into EVERYTHING you do. No matter what you’re working on, you have a sidekick who can ideate, explain, and plan with you. It just grows your building muscles so much. The more you can spot ideas out in the wild then quickly turn around and build prototypes, the better you’ll become at spotting winning ideas.

Atlas has been making this SO much easier for me now that Chat is just a click away, and instantly has all the context from the browser PLUS all the context from our previous conversations (it has access to all your ChatGPT memories, so all context from EVERY conversation you’ve ever had on ChatGPT is included in the browser.)

Not only did ChatGPT plan out the financial betting app from the tweet I showed you, it also incorporated some features we talked about in previous conversations on the ChatGPT site. That’s incredibly powerful.

Just the integrated ChatGPT + memories from our past conversations is enough to get me to switch from Chrome.

Then you have additional features like Agent mode. If I’m being honest with you, as of right now I have no use for agent mode. It does nothing better or faster than I can. I’m still searching for use cases for it, but if I’m being 100% transparent, I think that it’s just an incredibly early version of what the future of AI agents will look like. A fun prototype, but not something that is going to change lives.

But what will change your life is incorporating AI into as many things you do as possible. So my challenge to you is this: if you downloaded Atlas keep the Ask ChatGPT sidebar open 24/7 no matter what you’re doing in the browser. Every website you go to think to yourself ‘How can I incorporate AI into this?’ ‘What ideas can I pull from this site, give to AI, and turn into a tangible idea?’ ‘How can I build something that solves a problem on this site?’

If you have security concerns and would rather all your data be given to Google instead of OpenAI that’s fine too. You can use my older workflow. Download the ChatGPT desktop app and have the window open on your screen at all times, ready to brainstorm and come up with ideas for you

Is Atlas a total revolutionary product that will change everyone’s lives? No. But if you’re reading this newsletter you’re probably very into AI and interested in how it can improve your life/help you build a business. And if that’s the case, there are definitely opportunities here to use Atlas to advance your goals and make you more skilled with AI.

Have you used Atlas? Any workflows you’ve come up with? Let me know by hitting reply!