OpenAI Operator: A Complete Hands-On Review with Screenshots

I jumped in and started playing with Operator as soon as it became available—yes it's the future and you will love it, but gosh the future is very janky right now!

Since it became available this morning, I’ve been playing with OpenAI Operator in its research preview form, and despite its quirks and occasional nail-biting slowness, it feels like peering into the future. My hat is off to the OpenAI team for this one.

And yes, it beats Claude MCP hands down!

Apparently we humans are less than 80% good at computers

First, what is Operator?

Operator is an AI that doesn’t just answer questions in a chat—it can actually go to websites, scroll, click, type, and fill out forms on your behalf. It can do complex tasks (mostly) like downloading PDFs from emails, or researching travel itineraries, and it even (via Booking) can book travel for you.

Here’s the full story of what it can (and sometimes can’t) do.