I understand it could have just been a 'regular' automated task and not necessarily an LLM task (at least if tried hard enough). But isn't the general promise of these LLMs that we don't have to program a separate automated task for everything? And my query is precisely the kind of research I want the LLMs to carry out for me online. An educated assistant (natural intelligence) will do this task for me pretty easily, and I just want AI to do the same, perhaps much faster and cheaper. Until they can do that they're not impressive enough. :)
Either you do it yourself, or your task someone else with that research task. The promise of autonomous agents is that they do the grunt work for you, but even though I'm really excited about the concept, it doesn't work all that well yet.