This is also the part that AI speeds up the most for me, maybe 100x productivity.

I start with something like this prompt:

"This is a research project around <vague statement>. What do competitors, like <x>, <y>, <z> do around this, are there any blog posts or tech talks?

Are there any academic approaches or recent papers around the topic?

Can you survey any related open source projects? I know of <x> and <y>. Please include analysis of activity, github stars, number of downloads on npm/pypi/crates, and search the web for reviews or complaints or positive or negative blog posts from developers.

All claims should have links to the original sources, preferably with quoted text where appropriate.

We are going to write a research plan for how to produce this report.

The implementation of the plan will spawn subagents to survey breadth, then spawn subagents for each depth topic in detail"