Hey! Ankur here, and this is the 19th edition of Lazy AI — 5 mins of reading to help you stay ahead of the AI curve.

I tried something last week that made me feel like I was living in 2030. And it took exactly 3 minutes, one browser install, and a one-line prompt.

You’ve seen the phrase “agentic AI” everywhere by now. But it seems too technical to even start.

Here’s the thing — it’s not supposed to be that hard. And now, it genuinely isn’t. Let me tell you why today..

Agentic AI is AI that doesn’t just answer your questions — it does things. It clicks buttons, fills forms, navigates websites, completes multi-step tasks. Think of it as the difference between asking someone for directions versus having someone actually drive you there.

Every chatbot you’ve used — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude — is great at talking. But the moment you need something done, you’re back to clicking, copying, tabbing, and pasting. Agentic AI closes that gap. And the simplest way to try it right now? Install a browser. For free.

Well, you install a browser.

Perplexity has built a browser called Comet. It’s just like any other browser that you use (not Microsoft edge though, that’s a different league legacy 😇)

And here’s where it gets cool — Comet has an AI agent built in. No plugin. No setup. You tell it what to do in plain English, and it does it.

“Find the cheapest one-way flight from Mumbai to Lisbon in August, only Emirates, max one stop.” Comet opens tabs, searches, filters, compiles results. You don’t have to touch a single dropdown.

“Summarise this 14-paragraph email in my Gmail.” It reads your open Gmail tab — no backend connection, no dark magic API needed — and gives you a 3-line summary.

Honestly, when I first read about this, I thought it was one of those things that sounds amazing in a demo and falls apart in real life.

But it actually works.

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Here’s where it gets interesting — and where I have a strong opinion.

LinkedIn is the most important professional platform in the world. But..it’s also one of the most locked-down.

If you’re a marketer, recruiter, or founder trying to automate anything on LinkedIn, you’;; most likely be stuck. Because LinkedIn’s API gives approved developers barely anything: A name, a photo, a headline.

Want connections, comments, engagement data? Good luck with that.

So what can people actually do to automate tasks on LinkedIn? Browser-based automation. And this is where Comet becomes genuinely useful.

People have used Comet to open LinkedIn profiles, ask it to extract job titles, companies, years of experience — and dump that data straight into a Google Sheet open in another tab. No code, no scraping tool, no API call that LinkedIn can block.

(Fair warning: It doesn’t handle hundreds of profiles. We’re still early for that kind of magic. But for small-batch research? THAT magic works!)

Basically, for platforms that deliberately lock you out of programmatic access, a browser-based agent is often the only accessible way to automate anything.

While LinkedIn is the best use case for the Comet browser, there are hundreds of other agentic AI use cases you can run with Comet. I’m explaining two below:

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Here’s what I keep coming back to. Conversations about agentic AI are full of technical jargon and developer talk, which makes many smart and curious people feel like it’s not meant for them.

Until now.

Because now Comet is that saviour who comes to our rescue.

But again, is Comet the most powerful agentic AI system out there? No. Is it the most accessible one? Absolutely. And honestly, that matters more right now.

I’ve been writing about AI since a few months now, but writing what I think will help, without knowing what you want, is like shooting arrows in the dark.

It’ll help me and you, and take just 60 seconds for you to tell me. Here’s where you can do it.

So go ahead — install Comet, stalk connect with some industry peers on LinkedIn, or just plan your next travel by finding the cheapest tickets! I’d love to know what you used it for!

If this got you thinking, please share it with someone who keeps hearing about agentic AI but has no idea where to actually start.

See you next time..

Cheers,

Ankur