The act of rapidly switching between multiple browser tabs, each running separate AI/GPT/Chat sessions, to simulate the productivity of an over-caffeinated think tank. A digital power move used by engineers, researchers, and chaos-loving polymaths to multiply AI output without melting down their own brain.
Origin:
First coined in 2025 by a rainforest-dwelling tech veteran who discovered that with enough browser tabs and GPT threads, you could basically LARP as a one-man DARPA.
Related Terms:
* Prompt Jockey – someone who rides AI prompts across multiple sessions like a rodeo cowboy.
* Context Siloing – isolating ideas across threads due to stateless session memory.
* RAM-Juggling – trying to mentally track which thread is doing what because you didn’t name your chats properly.
Pro Tips:
* Always label your threads so future-you doesn’t have a breakdown.
* Pin critical sessions like you’re building a command center.
* Just don’t ask the cocktail bot for help with your Kubernetes YAML.
Origin:
First coined in 2025 by a rainforest-dwelling tech veteran who discovered that with enough browser tabs and GPT threads, you could basically LARP as a one-man DARPA.
Related Terms:
* Prompt Jockey – someone who rides AI prompts across multiple sessions like a rodeo cowboy.
* Context Siloing – isolating ideas across threads due to stateless session memory.
* RAM-Juggling – trying to mentally track which thread is doing what because you didn’t name your chats properly.
Pro Tips:
* Always label your threads so future-you doesn’t have a breakdown.
* Pin critical sessions like you’re building a command center.
* Just don’t ask the cocktail bot for help with your Kubernetes YAML.
"I had five projects due and one brain cell left, so I started tab-hopping like I was running an AI blacksite."
by segfahlt April 30, 2025
A web browser window with more tabs open than any human could reasonably keep track of. Typically the result of a research paper you're writing, or a Wikipedia-Odyssey. A plague to your CPU and mental health.
I knew this essay was a mess when I realized I had created a tab monster on my computer. I could barely keep them all straight, and I couldn't wait to hit that juicy, juicy X in the corner of my screen when I was done.
by minferno May 02, 2020
by aphantomdolphin May 08, 2018
A dirty tab is when in act of a threesome u finish
Inside the girl she suddenly sneezes and the jizz shoots out the other girl dives and catches it in her mouth a dirty tab.
Inside the girl she suddenly sneezes and the jizz shoots out the other girl dives and catches it in her mouth a dirty tab.
by Dcbaked June 06, 2020
Coined to define the ‘for you’ tab on Twitter, which has a constant feed of right wing political views.
Ricky: “Yeah I dropped the tabs on this guy, never saw him again.”
Jimmy: “Wow buddy that’s great. Fill it 100 octane?”
“Drop the tabs”
Jimmy: “Wow buddy that’s great. Fill it 100 octane?”
“Drop the tabs”
by Howyabeendoin October 11, 2020
A tab(s) on ones web browser that has windows containing pornography that was searched late at night for sexual pleasure
by Heyitsj000 April 04, 2019