I find LLMs very helpful when the task is annoyingly underdefined / understructured, but the result I want is easy to eyeball-audit.
This seems like one of those. Boiling down manpages to a consistent structure which a program can consume is going to involve a lot of special-casing a script, because they aren't written to be scraped like that.
But opening the result in one window, then loading the manpages one at a time in the other, and sanity-checking the contents, is less effort than manually copy-pasting everything and getting it into a consistent data format by hand.
Feeding the result of an LLM-grep sight-unseen into another program is an insane thing to do, of course. But using it like the above could save a lot of time.
I find LLMs very helpful when the task is annoyingly underdefined / understructured, but the result I want is easy to eyeball-audit.
This seems like one of those. Boiling down manpages to a consistent structure which a program can consume is going to involve a lot of special-casing a script, because they aren't written to be scraped like that.
But opening the result in one window, then loading the manpages one at a time in the other, and sanity-checking the contents, is less effort than manually copy-pasting everything and getting it into a consistent data format by hand.
Feeding the result of an LLM-grep sight-unseen into another program is an insane thing to do, of course. But using it like the above could save a lot of time.