Real Test: Workflow Bottleneck is Cross-App Copy-Pasting, Not the Model
Deep_Ad1959 · reddit · 2026-08-03
A developer reflected on the root cause of his inefficient workflow. He initially blamed the model for being too slow, frequently switching between LLMs before realizing that the real pain point was manually copy-pasting information across 28 browser tabs (e.g., Gmail, HubSpot, Drive).
He found that introducing a desktop agent capable of cross-app data retrieval was the key. Once the model could directly access and integrate his software stack, the choice of model mattered very little. The agent even surfaced forgotten open loops in old email threads and drafted follow-ups, waiting only for his final approval to send.
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