We let OpenAI’s “Agent Mode” surf the web for us—here’s what happened

The results: Rather than navigating to the “Free Demos” category, the Atlas agent started by searching for “demo.” After eventually finding the macOS filter, it wasted minutes and minutes looking for a “has demo” filter, even though the search for the word “demo” already narrowed it down.

This search results page was about as far as the Atlas agent was able to get…