Delegating from the Deck Chair: Let COMET Grind While You Glide
Watching an agent-browser break a sweat is the perfect excuse to stay horizontal straight through Labor Day.
Summer game plan? Plenty of loafing, a splash of sea-salt air—plus a brand-new digital intern that never asks for sunscreen.
▶︎ Meet COMET, Perplexity’s freshly launched agentic browser you can grab right here (no waitlist, finally): https://www.perplexity.ai/comet
Wait—what on earth is an “agentic browser”?
Think of it as the next evolution of search.
Instead of handing you a pile of links, an agentic browser stitches together multiple queries, hops across sites, applies a bit of reasoning, and delivers an actual result—report, spreadsheet, summary, you name it. In short, it behaves less like Google and more like a junior analyst who skipped the coffee break.
Automation on the fly – Outline a task (“Compare shipping rates across five UPS competitors and draft a cost-savings report”), hit Run, and watch the tab frenzy happen in the background.
Context that sticks – Because the agent keeps the thread of your conversation, you refine instead of restart.
No-code superpowers – All of the above, zero lines of Python required. Works like magic, in natural language.
What about ChatGPT?
COMET is the latest kid on the block, but you can pull a similar stunt inside ChatGPT by flipping on agent mode if you’d rather stay in familiar territory.
Picture this: your screen erupts into a rapid-fire ballet of tabs—each one springing open, logging in, skirting cookie banners, and swatting pop-ups like a seasoned bouncer. Links get clicked, forms autofill themselves, captchas melt away, and data flows neatly into a doc you didn’t lift a finger to create.
If the agent hits a roadblock—a paywall, a 404, a stubborn modal—it pivots, retries, or grabs the info from a workaround source, all before you’ve even taken a second sip of iced coffee.
The whole thing feels less like browsing and more like watching a self-driving browser hustle on your behalf with uncanny precision and zero need for supervision.
Why ecommerce folks should care—yesterday
Competitive intel on autopilot
Set a recurring scrape of rival pricing, promos, or new SKUs, then have the agent kick you a neat summary every Monday. For free.
Product-page glow-ups
Feed it raw specs plus customer reviews, and let the browser compile a ready-to-publish description before your latte cools.
Review mining without the carpal tunnel
“Show me the top five complaints about our best-seller over the last year, grouped by theme.” Boom—more actionable than a generic sentiment score.
Data fetch & stitch
Need revenue, ad spend, and conversion data in one sheet? Frame the question once; the agent will pull, clean, and merge the numbers like a pro.
Fire-drill triage
When that unexpected promo goes live, an agentic browser can check landing pages, coupon codes, and inventory levels simultaneously—faster than a slack ping chain.
The takeaway
These tools are still newborns, which is the perfect time to kick the tires: low stakes, high learning curve, huge upside.
Spin up COMET (or ChatGPT’s agent mode) this week, throw it one mind-numbing task you’re sick of, and see how far the automation rabbit hole goes. Once September hits, you might find your to-do list suspiciously light—and your deck chair still calling.
Oh, and one more thing
And here’s the kicker: chances are your next online “customer” will be one of these agentic browsers working on behalf of a real shopper—scraping specs, comparing prices, auto-filling carts, and sealing the deal in milliseconds.
By the time Peak Season hits, COMET, ChatGPT agents, and their inevitable clones will be roaming your storefronts like high-frequency buyers.
Get under the hood now, see how they traverse your pages, and fix the friction points before the bots beat the humans to checkout.
Muy bien artículo. No sabía de esto. Pero debo decir que si es con lista de espera. Quizás sea porque vivo en el tercer mundo.