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User proposes programmable search over manuals for productivity gains

A Mastodon user suggests that many non-tech industries still rely on manual processes for tasks like report updating and formatting. They propose that well-written software manuals combined with programmable search could significantly boost productivity, enabling users to perform complex actions like conditional cell formatting through natural language queries. The user dismisses current LLMs for these tasks, citing their unreliability and potential to cause data loss, advocating instead for deterministic, logic-based systems. AI

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RANK_REASON The content is a personal opinion/suggestion on a social media platform, not a significant industry event or release.

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    talking to the fiance, i was reminded that outside of the tech sector, lots of dumb things are still done manually like updating reports and formatting them i t

    talking to the fiance, i was reminded that outside of the tech sector, lots of dumb things are still done manually like updating reports and formatting them i think you could get 200x the productivity of LLMs if software still came with well-written manuals and a programmable sea…