Next, I wanted to see if this could be done with a local LLM. Gemma-4 handles this fine with an 8GB video card and a large context (128k).
Next, I wanted to see if the model could also OCR these docs and translate them. The same model can handle that quite well.
This was when I realized LLMs should be great for handling work where:
- I already know what I want to do
- I already know how to do it
- I don't think this task will help develop skills I find to be valuable
- If I have to do it manually myself, I will probably cut corners
So now I view LLMs through the lens of, "what work can I send to an LLM that I otherwise would not really care about doing."
