Perplexingly Book-Learned Emacs
a year ago
- #Perplexity AI
- #LLM
- #Book Tracking
- Difficulty in finding a programmatic way to track new books by authors.
- Use of Perplexity AI to list books by authors and identify new releases.
- Creation of a simple library, perplexity.el, to interact with Perplexity's API.
- Inconsistency in LLM responses and the challenge of non-repeatable results.
- Manual verification of book listings via bookshop.org and Goodreads due to occasional hallucinations.
- Experimentation with tracking multiple authors and aggregating results for new books.
- Comparison with ISBNdb and its limitations in distinguishing new works from different editions.
- Realization of the potential utility of LLMs despite their inherent jankiness.