[ahamilton454]

This is one of the reasons I really like deep research. It always asks questions first and forces me to refine and better define what I want to learn about.

A simple UX change makes the difference between education and dumbing users of your service.

[creesch]

Have you ever paid close attention to those questions though? Deep research can be really nifty, but I feel like the questions it asks are just there for the "cool factor" to make people think it is properly consider things.

The reason I think that is because it often ask about things I already took great care to explicitly type out. I honestly don't think those extra questions add much to the actually searching it does.

[ahamilton454]

It doesn't always ask great questions, but even just the fact that it does makes me re-think what i am asking.

I definetly sometimes ask really specialized questions and in that case i just say "do the search" and ignore the questions, but a lot of times it helps me determine what i am really asking.

I suspect people with execellent communication abilities might find less utility from the questions

[Veen]

As a technical writer, I don't use Deep Research because it makes me worse at my job. Research, note-taking, and summarization are how I develop an understanding of a topic so I can write knowledgeably about it. The resulting notes are almost incidental. If I let an AI do that work for me, I get the notes but no understanding. Reading the document produced by the AI is not a substitute for doing the work.