This week on Work Less, we’re talking about $180 million in fresh funding for n8n and what it means for the automation wars - can they really take on Zapier, Make, and the old-school RPA giants?

Then we test drive OpenAI’s brand new browser “Atlas by ChatGPT” (spoiler: it’s… not great), and unpack what makes AI browsers like Daya and Perplexity different, or at least less terrifying for your passwords.

Finally, we get philosophical (and a little doomsday-y) about “AI slop” — the growing mess of machine-generated junk clogging the internet, and whether the “dead internet theory” might be less of a conspiracy and more of a preview.

No hype, no fluff - just two people trying to make sense of the automation chaos.

🧰 Tools, Companies & Topics Mentioned

• n8n (Series C funding, $180M raise)
• Sequoia Capital, Accel, Nvidia (investors)
• Zapier, Make (Integromat), Lindy, Relay, Gumloop
• OpenAI’s Atlas Browser
• Daya, Arc (The Browser Company), Perplexity
• Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Anthropic)
• Gemini (Google)
• ChatGPT (GPT-5)
• Claude Skills
• AI Slop / Dead Internet Theory
• Kurzgesagt (video reference)