Comment by selridge
1 day ago
I do t see either of those as the premise.
This is about getting the computer to do the stuff we had been promised computing would make easier, stuff that was never capital-H Hard but just annoying. Most of the real claw skills are people connecting stuff that has always been connectable but it has been so fiddly as to make it a full time side project to maintain, or you need to opt into a narrow walled garden that someone can monetize to really get connectivity.
Now you can just get an LLM to learn apple’s special calendar format so you can connect it to a note-taking app in a way that only you might want. You don’t need to make it a second job to learn whatever glue needs to make that happen.
Reading some documentation to figure out a format is something you do once and takes you a few minutes.
Are you a developer? Then this is something you probably do a couple times a day. Prompting the correct version will take longer and will leave you with much less understanding of the system you just implemented. So once it fails you don't know how to fix it.
I love that the posture is I have a problem I need you to fix haha.
I don't need you to fix my problems. I'm reporting that the LLM-based solution beats the dogshit out of the old "become a journeyman on one of 11 billion bullshit formats or processes" practice.
I'm not trying to help you, I'm just wondering how the LLM actually helps you.
You don't need to become a journeyman at understanding a format, you just need to see a schema, or find an open source utility. I just can't comprehend the actual helplessness that a developer would have to experience in order to have to ask an LLM to do something like this.
If I were that daunted by parsing a standardized file format for a workflow, I would have to be experiencing a major burnout. How could I ever assume I could do any actual technical work if I'm overwhelmed by a parsing problem that has out-of-the-box solutions available.
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