OpenAI’s Atlas: Shrug or No Shrug?

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Knowledge base

"Vibe Check: Claude Code Now Works on Mobile and the Web" by Dan Shipper and Katie Parrott/Vibe Check: If you code with AI, you know the score: You’ve got to stay at your keyboard. Anthropic’s newly released web and mobile version of Claude Code promises liberation, but are they ready for prime time? Dan Shipper, Kieran Klaassen, and Danny Aziz spent a weekend testing it across real scenarios—and two of them gave up trying to use it. Read this for an honest early assessment of when you might be able to truly code from anywhere.

"We Tested Claude Sonnet 4.5 for Writing and Editing" by Katie Parrott/Vibe Check: Katie Parrott and Danny ran real-world tests to see if Sonnet 4.5 could replace a two-model setup of ChatGPT for drafting and Claude for editing. It excelled at long-form drafts and maintaining voice, while GPT-5 still edges it out in some other important ways. Read this to learn whether a single chatbot is ready to take over your writing habits.

"Vibe Check: OpenAI's New AI Browser, Atlas" by Dan Shipper and Katie Parrott/Vibe Check: OpenAI just dropped a browser, and it puts Google on notice. Katie got Atlas running in three minutes and felt comfortable enough to make it her default browser within five. Read this for a day-zero hands-on review of whether Atlas delivers.

"Introducing Spiral v3: An AI Writing Partner With Taste" by Dan Shipper and Danny Aziz/On Every: Most AI writing tools are great at churning out content that smells like a robot wrote it, so we rebuilt Spiral from the ground up with editorial taste. It slows you down, asks you hard questions like a real ghostwriter, and shows you several ways your idea could branch before collapsing into one optimal answer. Read this—and give Spiral a try—if you want an AI writing partner that has something to say and an elegant way to say it.