Perplexity Told Me Whether a Claim Was Real or Wishful Thinking

I used Perplexity the way most people first try it — slowly, and with a lot of backtracking.

I tried to skip the setup. The setup turned out to be the whole point.

Step one is the boring part people skip: name the one decision you're actually trying to make.

Then let Perplexity do the draft, but watch it hedges hard on anything controversial.

The fix that mattered: check the one fact you'd be embarrassed to get wrong

What changed: ships every answer with clickable citations Now it's a ten-minute job I don't dread.

Don't expect it to be fire-and-forget. The tool handles the volume; you handle the judgment. That split is the whole trick.