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Comment by javawizard

10 hours ago

Because it finds the sources much quicker than I would have been able to on my own, and I can then synthesize them into data I know is correct, as correct as any human-generated data can be of course.

But what that because their search was so bad that it took you that long to find the sources?

  • No, it's usually because it finds sources that I would not have even thought to search for in the first place.

    Agentic AI has its faults, but one thing I've found it to be very good at is surfacing the "unknown unknowns": things I didn't know I should have searched for but that are directly relevant to my problem.