Feel like overnight I suddenly started seeing so much stuff and comments on here concerning generating Office documents with the LLMs. What could be driving this? Doesn't latex or similar seem like a better fit here?
Most corporate workplaces are super dependent on the Microsoft Office suite.
The idea of Latex being used in business environments could be a meme
Yeah, but it just feels so ridiculous the other way too! The reason people use Word et al instead markup languages is because of the UI, right? Why does that matter here? After you generate a final PDF, no one needs to know how you made it?
Office documents have been notoriously difficult to automate for years. I think old .doc files were just a memory dump
The first version of the .doc format was actually a memory dump, which poses security risks and that's why modern Office refuses to open pre-Office '97 .doc files by default.
People want to generate corporate content. For years now, it comes and goes.