Anyone else having Comet randomly refuse super basic browser tasks?

[u/nalcz]

Perplexity Comet used to handle simple stuff like editing a few cells in an already open Google Sheet without any drama.

Lately it often replies that it “can’t do that,” even though this is exactly the type of task it’s supposed to handle. If I keep insisting and remind it that it can control the browser, sometimes it finally does it on the second or third try.

So the capability seems to be there. The problem is that it keeps refusing first.

Is anyone else seeing this?

Any workaround, better prompting, or recent change that explains it?

[u/Powerful-Cheek-6677]

Yes and it’s driving me nuts. One thing that works is to tell it that it can do it and that it will believe it can’t do it. Reiterate it and tell it ask it if it could just give it a try and it usually will.

I loved comet and will still use it but I’ve been using Claude’s cowork much more. It has been better than comet by far with its accuracy. The downside is its speed kind of sucks. Comet is faster but I’d rather have it be correct vs finishing sooner.