Oh I think I see. No, I'm not being paid to promote LLMs.
The point of my blog post was two-fold: first, to introduce the OCR tool I built. And second, to provide yet another documented example of how I use LLMs in my daily development work.
The tool doesn't use LLMs itself, they were just a useful speed-up in building it.
My reasoning: There are hundreds of billions of dollars at stake getting the wider world to embrace LLMs on a long-term basis. If I were a VC, or Nvidia/OpenAI/MS marketing person, I'd be paying trusted names such as yourself to post about using LLMs. That coupled with the loose link between OCR and LLMs in your latest post created an itch I thought was worthy of a scratch.
Oh I think I see. No, I'm not being paid to promote LLMs.
The point of my blog post was two-fold: first, to introduce the OCR tool I built. And second, to provide yet another documented example of how I use LLMs in my daily development work.
The tool doesn't use LLMs itself, they were just a useful speed-up in building it.
It's part of a series of posts, see also: https://simonwillison.net/tags/aiassistedprogramming/