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.
I meant to tell you that I've been fiddling with BriefWriter a bit. I would suspect a Deep Research version of this could be handy for folks - this seems to be the new "scarce" paradigm, but then again, maybe it'll just get replaced next week.
Curious to hear what your thoughts are on BriefWriter - feel free to DM me if there's anything of value to share!
But from what I've seen about DeepResearch, it actually has a lot of the "BriefWriter" benefits built into it by default. It automatically asks you several rounds of follow-up questions before starting the research to make sure it fully understands your situation and needs. It also lets you upload files and reference material directly. And it intelligently makes decisions about which research path to navigate as it uncovers new knowledge
As such, I'm not convinced there's much value in getting a GPT-4o-based Custom GPT to create any brief in advance in the same way as there is with the o1 model.
I think that's right, and of course you realized that immediately! You had to build the sucka. It's a good example of convergent evolution in tech, too!
Charlie, sorry for hijacking here. Your analysis is spot-on and I just wanted to pitch in that comment quickly while my brain found a few seconds to spit that out!
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!
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.
I meant to tell you that I've been fiddling with BriefWriter a bit. I would suspect a Deep Research version of this could be handy for folks - this seems to be the new "scarce" paradigm, but then again, maybe it'll just get replaced next week.
Curious to hear what your thoughts are on BriefWriter - feel free to DM me if there's anything of value to share!
But from what I've seen about DeepResearch, it actually has a lot of the "BriefWriter" benefits built into it by default. It automatically asks you several rounds of follow-up questions before starting the research to make sure it fully understands your situation and needs. It also lets you upload files and reference material directly. And it intelligently makes decisions about which research path to navigate as it uncovers new knowledge
As such, I'm not convinced there's much value in getting a GPT-4o-based Custom GPT to create any brief in advance in the same way as there is with the o1 model.
I think that's right, and of course you realized that immediately! You had to build the sucka. It's a good example of convergent evolution in tech, too!
Charlie, sorry for hijacking here. Your analysis is spot-on and I just wanted to pitch in that comment quickly while my brain found a few seconds to spit that out!
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!
Thanks Erin!