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Daniel Nest's avatar

Before getting to your last section, I was also thinking "Why not both?" to myself.

On the one hand, simply unleashing AI agents onto the existing Internet infrastructure and UX elements seems like an easy, straightforward solution. They're getting smart enough to figure this out rather reliably.

On the other hand, it's kind of laughable that we have AIs capable of doing things at speeds orders of magnitude faster than us and we've handed them a figurative mouse pointer and told them to use it to slowwwwwlllyyyy click through inefficient menus and dropdowns.

Something tells me we'll find a way to equip AI agents with a more efficient tool to parse our existing Internet while not being constrained by having to follow the exact same movements/clicks/actions as us.

I guess search agents like Deep Research are a good example of this: Something that can crawl our existing network of interconnected websites but way faster than we ever could.

Speaking of which, you're one of the few people I know with a ChatGPT Pro account, so I'm hoping you'll share some thoughts on your experience with Deep Research. So far, most of what I've heard is very positive - much more so than for browser-dependent agents like Operator and Computer Use.

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Erin E. Lyons's avatar

Mind-blowing. Thanks for helping us parse all of this. Also, I love the “Dear Reader” nod to Jane Eyre! Definitely fascinated by the concept of writing for AI and will watch the full interview. Insightful work, as always!

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