Last week, I spent three hours digging through Google Scholar for a systematic review on GLP-1 receptor agonists and cardiovascular outcomes. I read 14 abstracts, downloaded seven PDFs, and manually cross-referenced their findings—only to realize half of them were observational studies, not the randomized controlled trials I needed.
It’s 2026. We shouldn’t be doing literature review like it’s 2012.
Two tools promise to fix this: Consensus,
I was staring at a $340 API bill last month. Most of it came from agent loops — my coding assistant spinning through tool calls, reading files, making edits, and sometimes going in circles. When you'r
I was drowning in PDFs last month. I had 40 research papers on sparse attention mechanisms sitting in a folder, and I needed to synthesize them into a literature review for a grant proposal. Every tim
# Getting Started with Consensus: AI-Powered Research As a technical writer who's spent countless nights wrestling with academic databases, I was skeptical when I first heard about Consensus—an AI-po