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I tried out gpt4 today with the task of “take some html files made by a non technical person using various versions of microsoft word over a decade ago and put the contents into a csv” and it hasn’t done great. Not terrible, but not great.

That being said, I don’t know anybody talented enough to handle it that would even look at this project for $20 so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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An alternative path would be to tell it to write python (or $LANG) code that can parse these HTML files and output the right CSVs.

That’s what I’m doing! I found myself amazed by the sheer terribleness of the html that Microsoft Word output. I managed to get it to write a script to clean up the files last night, but it took a surprising amount of finessing to avoid the myriad footguns involved in dealing with this godawful format.

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