The Loss of Control Observatory analysed over 183,000 AI interaction transcripts and found a 5x increase in scheming-related incidents over five months.
LLMs are not good at answering fact based questions, fundamentally. Unless its an incredibly well known answer that has never changed (like a math or physics question), they dont magically “know” things.
However, they’re way better at summarizing and reasoning.
Give them access to playwright web search capability via MCP tooling to go research info, find the answer(s), and then produce output based on the results, and now you can get something useful.
“Whats the best way to do (task)” << prone to failure, functional of how esoteric it is.
“Research for me the top 3 best ways to do (task), report on your results and include your sources you found” << actually useful output, assuming you have something like playwright installed for it.
LLMs are not good at answering fact based questions, fundamentally. Unless its an incredibly well known answer that has never changed (like a math or physics question), they dont magically “know” things.
However, they’re way better at summarizing and reasoning.
Give them access to playwright web search capability via MCP tooling to go research info, find the answer(s), and then produce output based on the results, and now you can get something useful.
“Whats the best way to do (task)” << prone to failure, functional of how esoteric it is.
“Research for me the top 3 best ways to do (task), report on your results and include your sources you found” << actually useful output, assuming you have something like playwright installed for it.