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Re:Things I've Done with AI by cj on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:59PM (#47316187)
Good call. I’ve also had better results pre-processing PDFs, extracting data into structured format, and then running prompts against that.

Which should pair well with the “write a script” tactic.

Re:Things I've Done with AI by tavavex on Monday March 09, 2026 @06:10PM (#47316335)
Yeah, asking for a tool to do a thing is almost always better than asking for the thing directly, I find. LLMs are kind of not there in terms of always being correct with large batches of data. And when you ask for a script, you can actually verify what's going on in there, without taking leaps of faith.