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by grandslammer 389 days ago
I literally find myself using this tool every day because I need to use natural language to reformat files and the data that are in the files like CSV‘s or markdown so maybe this isn’t useful for you but it definitely is useful to have the LM be able to interpret your natural language to redesign the file the way that you want it to give the information
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ramoz 389 days ago
You're talking about a commodity interaction at this point your tool offers nothing different from a chatbot other than your confusing semantics and abstraction.

What Im saying: If the point is to "convert this csv to markdown so i can feed the markdown to a LLM to ask questions about it" etc... it is a completely unnecessary step.

Your service is nothing more than:

1. augmented metadata for files; btw if that requires a whole new drive-oriented solution then you're doing too much.

2. llm api wrapper for a commoditized capability (custom format/or transpilation)

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grandslammer 389 days ago
The friction isn’t “can I call an LLM,” it’s every time I want to do anything with this file I have to:

open it in a tool that understands the format,

export / paste the part I care about,

phrase an LLM prompt,

paste the result back,

do this all again if i want the data formatted differently for different use cases.

adding the ability to format your data and view/download that natively, fast is like giving python scripting capabilities to normal users. You're thinking like a dev not like a business owner who may want to take a picture of a timesheet and have that immediately become a CSV then have it reformatted for a management system they use, all on the fly through natural language... there's so many ways that normal people navigate files and formats and I want to give these people some superpowers that they won't seek out themselves.

the gpt-wrapper argument is so played out. just like you’d say “my app is a GPT-wrapper” (it wraps the OpenAI API in a file-centric UX), you could say “Google Drive is a distributed-storage-wrapper” or “a cloud-storage-and-sync wrapper.” It’s the polished frontend and glue that makes the raw backend useful to end users.

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