[simonw]

I've seen enough examples of an LLM misinterpreting a column or row - resulting in returning the incorrect answer to a question because it was off by one in one of the directions - that I'm nervous about trusting them for this.

JSON objects are different - there the key/value relationship is closer in the set of tokens which usually makes it more reliable.

[danielmarkbruce]

yeah... so, you want to two step it. Parse the table into something structured, then answer the question. For a lot of LLM "problems", it's about the same as teaching a kid a multi-step problem in math - if you try to do it in one step, you are going to have a hard time .