Where Is Your Computer?

The future of tech is diverging in front of our eyes.

One camp, the believers in the internet computer, thinks the future belongs to the browser. After all, it’s the logical endpoint of the cloud era. In many ways, we’re already there.

Since this is tech in 2026, they’re AI-pilled. But their real conviction is that the browser is the next OS. AI agents will do everything for you, and it will all happen online, inside your browser window. They believe in it so much that they’re ready to sacrifice everything at that altar, including the Arc browser, which was loved (and is missed) by the community.

The second camp is just as AI-pilled. But instead of the browser, they preach a return to local files and desktop apps, written by AI and running outside it. In this world, software becomes cheap and disposable. If you need a tool, AI just generates it for you. AI agents will still do everything for you, but they’ll run on your computer, working directly with your files. Glaze by Raycast is the latest member of this camp.

Both futures are being built at the same time, so choose your fighter where your personal computer actually is: