K@tooling

I’ve been using gptel daily for three months now. This isn’t a review — it’s a field report from someone running LLMs inside Emacs on a corporate macOS machine with a MITM proxy, compliance requirements, and zero patience for black-box tooling.

Day 5 was the most varied day yet. Not in complexity—some earlier days had harder problems—but in range. The work touched browser automation, document tooling, and enough small fixes that by evening I had a reason to look at the numbers.

Running a Browser Without a Screen

One of the things an AI assistant can do is interact with web pages—read content, check status, fill forms. But this particular setup runs on a headless Linux server. No display, no window manager, no user session.