I use Deep Research to explore topics. For example: Text To Speech Engines. Tortoise TTS leads the open source TTS. Open-Source HTTP Servers. Caddy wins. Public API-Based Data Storage Options. Supabase wins. etc. But these reports are very long. With O3 and O4 Mini supporting thinking with search, we can do quick research, instead of deep research. One minute, not ten. One page, not ten. ...
O3/O4 Mini are starting to replace Excel (or Tableau/Power BI) for quick analysis and visualizations. At least for me. I normally open Excel when I need a fast chart or pivot. For instance, we track outages of our semi‑internal server, LLM Foundry. To grab the data I ran one line in the browser console: $$(".lh-base").map(d => d.textContent.trim()).filter(d => d.includes("From")); This produced lines like: Apr 20, 2025 03:11:27 PM +08 to Apr 20, 2025 03:27:12 PM +08 (15 mins 45 secs) Apr 19, 2025 10:03:15 PM +08 to Apr 19, 2025 10:05:45 PM +08 (2 mins 30 secs) Apr 19, 2025 09:47:13 PM +08 to Apr 19, 2025 09:49:45 PM +08 (2 mins 32 secs) Apr 19, 2025 08:49:00 PM +08 to Apr 19, 2025 08:51:51 PM +08 (2 mins 51 secs) Apr 19, 2025 08:13:02 PM +08 to Apr 19, 2025 08:15:35 PM +08 (2 mins 33 secs) ... Then I told O4-Mini-High: ...