The AI read his scanned cheques and invoices and wrote the rename commands, in short bursts

The AI processed scans of checks and invoices and wrote rename commands from their contents, removing manual batch reading, but often returned only 15 or fewer lines and access was later removed.

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How it works

The AI processes the scans
Writes rename commands from the contents
Removes the manual batch reading, but often returns only 15 or fewer lines at a time and access gets in the way

Why it’s worth knowing

The reading is the hard part and it does that; the limit is how much it hands back at once.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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