{"id":2348,"date":"2026-05-27T18:18:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/why-i-think-ai-tools-should-live-closer-to-the-browser-workflow\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:18:56","slug":"why-i-think-ai-tools-should-live-closer-to-the-browser-workflow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/why-i-think-ai-tools-should-live-closer-to-the-browser-workflow\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I think AI tools should live closer to the browser workflow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/header>\n<div data-article-id=\"3766031\" id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Most AI tools still require a context switch.<\/p>\n<p>You are reading something, writing something, or replying to someone, then you have to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>open another tab<\/li>\n<li>paste the context<\/li>\n<li>write a prompt<\/li>\n<li>generate text<\/li>\n<li>copy it back<\/li>\n<li>edit it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That workflow works, but it creates friction.<\/p>\n<p>I have been building ForSocials as a Chrome extension because I think some AI workflows make more sense directly inside the browser.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is not to replace writing. The goal is to reduce the repeated context switching around writing.<\/p>\n<p>The most useful places so far have been:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reply drafts<\/li>\n<li>rewriting text<\/li>\n<li>AI chat on the current page<\/li>\n<li>reusable templates<\/li>\n<li>transcription and thread writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The product lesson for me has been simple: AI feels more useful when it appears where the task already happens.<\/p>\n<p>If you are building AI tools, are you keeping users in their current workflow or sending them somewhere else?<\/p>\n<p>For context, this is what I am building:<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/forsocials.com\/ai-chrome-extension\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/forsocials.com\/ai-chrome-extension<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p> <!-- Bottom content skipped via SKIP_BOTTOM_CONTENT config --> <\/div>\n<p> <\/main> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fuente: <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.to\/marinosveislla1\/why-i-think-ai-tools-should-live-closer-to-the-browser-workflow-5d2l\">Art\u00edculo original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most AI tools still require a context switch. You are reading something, writing something, or replying to someone, then you have to: open another tab paste the context write a prompt generate text copy it back edit it That workflow works, but it creates friction. I have been building ForSocials as a Chrome extension because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tucumandevelopers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}