Data portability used to be hard because it required lots of cognitive labor.

· Bits and Bobs 3/30/26
  • Data portability used to be hard because it required lots of cognitive labor.
    • That cognitive labor was due to different formats that had to be cajoled into other formats.
    • Or, in some cases, due to deliberately difficult-to-work with exports from companies that wanted to say they were allowing export while actually making it as difficult as possible.
    • But LLMs provide abundant cognitive labor.
      • They can make sense of any infodump, no matter how disorganized.
    • For example, Gemini's import is just a prompt.

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