Tuesday I was about 30 seconds away from buying a new desktop tower. Why? Because my pages were loading slow. Canva was lagging. Zoom felt glitchy. Everything just felt… heavy. And my brain went straight to: “My computer must be outdated.” So instead of guessing, I did what I teach inside Automated CEO: I asked AI a diagnostic question, not a vague one. My first prompt was: “Where do I find the specs for my Windows 11 desktop PC?” ChatGPT walked me step-by-step to pull the actual system info, and I pasted the results back in. That’s when things got interesting. Here’s what I was actually running: - i9 processor - 128 GB RAM - Multiple GPUs - Tons of storage Basically… a monster machine. So I followed up with the next logical prompt: “Here are my specs. I’m thinking about getting a new tower because everything feels slow. Is this actually a hardware problem?” That changed everything. Instead of saying “maybe,” it asked me for the one thing people never check: “Run a speed test and give me your download, upload, and ping.” So I did. My download and upload were fine…But my ping was spiking into the thousands of milliseconds. That means every click, scroll, and tab refresh was literally waiting seconds before it could even start loading. Not my computer. Not my RAM. Not my CPU. My browser was quietly DDoS-ing my own internet connection. 🧠 My Browser Was Running a Small Country Across three monitors I had: - 100+ tabs - Multiple Gmail accounts - Client portals - Google Docs - Google Sheets - AI tools - Facebook Messenger - Asana - Zoom - Canva - Streaming services - And about 47 things I “might need later” Each tab wasn’t just sitting there. My browser had become my: - CRM - Memory system - Project manager - Financial hub - AI lab - Content studio And it was running all of it at once. So the next prompt was: “If it’s not my computer and it’s not my internet speed, what’s actually causing the lag?” The answer was brutal and simple: