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> Dogpile was only a good idea while Search Engines were mostly trash.

Precisely.

LLMs fail in such bizzare, obscure methods (to the average observer) at times. Sometimes even simple questions ("who was that x person who was super famous I'm thinking of") type questions fail terribly.

The more vague and non committal and hand-wavey and subjective the field for AI to answer, the better the results (imo).

I daresay it's because the assistant training corpus is heavily biased towards one-shot solution answers.

Because the correct response to that query is "I have no idea -- you will need to provide more information"

and LLM Agents suck at that.

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