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One of my most successful uses of ai is dealing with various obtuse German bureaucracies, private and public.

I don’t think the ai is being particularly smart in my case, and its occasionally flat wrong.

What it does give me is persistence and motivation. I have a nice workflow cobbled together that lets me dump OCRd scans and digital comms into “workspaces” organized by topic. With that workflow, I can basically dump a letter in, say “wtf is it now?”, and have the llm spit out a response. I do basic due diligence and send. Done. They don’t have to be that accurate, and neither do I.

I feel like I have a new superpower now: outlasting it, whatever it is this time.





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