[dada216]

I have deployed very successful LLM based software that reads sales people emails and inserts orders, or stuff akin to orders, in the rest of the systems. Can you write me a regex that parses a messy human email thread and produces a clean JSON with all the order details? It's been working for a year with less than 3% error rate, better than what the humans themselves were doing.

[chairmansteve]

Interesting. A web form completed by the sales people would not have sufficed? I guess it's the backend interfaces to multiple systems that's the difficult part?

[tomnipotent]

A web form assumes the input is or can be made structured, or that you have a user that is willing to fill in a form (vs. writing an email). An LLM is great at taking free-form/unstructured content and mapping it nicely to a structured surface area.

[mxschumacher]

it's astounding how much of human work are tasks like the one you have described here. Dancing around messy interfaces because nobody bothered to properly standardize and automate