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I give o1 a URL and I ask it to comment on how well the corresponding web page markets a service to an audience I define in clear detail.

o1 generates a couple of pages of comments before admitting it didn’t access the web page and entirely based its analysis on the definition of the audience.



This service is going to be devastating to consultants and middle managers.


I trained an agent that operates as a McKinsey consultant. Its system prompt is a souped up version of:

“Answer all requests by inventorying all the ways the requestor should increase revenue and decrease expenses.”


To be fair you mostly hire McKinsey as a fall guy. You just can't hate an LLM in the same way as a bunch of 22 year Olds in suits.


O1 can't browse the web at all.


I say “look it up” in the prompt and that always works




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