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by TeMPOraL 473 days ago
> DeepResearch is a cosmetic enhancement that wraps the results in a "report" - it looks impressive but IMO is much more likely to lead to inaccurate or misleading results.

Yup, I got the same impression reading this article - and the Jina one, too. Like with langchain and agents, people are making chained function calls or a loop sound like it is the second coming, or a Nobel prize-worthy discovery. It's not - it's obvious. It's just expensive to get to work reliably and productize.

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It is obvious now, but I will defend langchain which is catching a stray here.

Folks associated with that project were some of the first people to talk about patterns like this publicly online. With GPT-3-Davinci it was not at all obvious that chaining these calls would work well, to most people, and I think the community and team around langchain and associated projects did a pretty good job of helping to popularize some of the patterns such as they are now obvious.

That said, I agree with your overall impression.