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Show HN: Sieves, a unified interface for structured document AI

Posted by rmitsch on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @03:11PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://medium.com/mantisnlp/sieves-a-unified-interface-for-structured-document-ai-8b3efec3ef58

Hi HN,I built Sieves, an open-source Python library that makes it easy to build structured document AI pipelines without locking yourself into any specific LLM framework.You can mix and match model frameworks (Outlines, LangChain, DSPy, GLiNER2, Transformers) for different tasks while keeping one declarative pipeline definition. E.g. fast local models for classification and frontier LLMs for...

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I'm surprised this isn't being talked about more. Sure, one could favourably assume that OpenAI just needs a little ad-powered financial push to finally hit AGI and solve every single problem under the sun, but that'd be a reach. It seems more probable that their internal evaluation of their ETA to AGI diverges starkly from what they communicate externally.

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Yeah, the latest wave of Opus 4.5, Codex 5.2, Gemini Pro 3 rendered a lot of my skepticism redundant as well. While I generally agree with the Jevon's paradox line of reasoning, I have to acknowledge it's difficult to make any reasonable prediction on technology that's moving at such immense speed.

I expected the LLM's would have hit a scaling wall by now, and I was wrong. Perhaps that'll still happen. If not, regardless of whether it'll ultimately create or eliminate more jobs, it'll destabilize the job market.

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There's no amount of evidence that'll help. We have had a sufficient amount of that for a long while. It's entrenched economic interests fostering a lack of political will that's keeping us from taking this seriously.