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[–] [email protected] 97 points 3 months ago (33 children)

The reality is, though, that there are no such APIs. LLMs on the other hand could be a valid tool for the use case.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (17 children)

It's not that there's no API. It's that there's probably a different API for every single grocery store. And they make random changes and don't have public documentation. That's why we need the AI.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Indeed. LLMs read with the same sort of comprehension that humans have, so if a supermarket makes their website compatible with humans then it's also compatible with LLMs. We have the same "API", as it were.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can LLMs interpret structured input like html?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yup. And those that can't can have a parser pull just the human-readable text out, like a blind person's screen-reader would do.

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