January 27, 2026
Sometimes it is easy to overmis-estimate what LLMs can do. Yesterday I wanted to extract all links from a long Whatsapp chat, because.. Whatsapp gives you only the raw text, but not all links in a long list. And I didn’t want to give the whole chat to Claude, so I ran Gemma 3:12B and.. it failed.
So I asked Claude, and it explained to me that this is indeed a difficult task for an LLM and I’d be better off running a simple Python script. And if delivered one straight away.
As I already had an environment installed, all I had to do was create a file with the code in the same folder as my Chat.txt, activate my environment in that folder, and run the script.
And within less than a second, I had a csv with all the links, timestamps, and messages accompanying the…
January 27, 2026
Sometimes it is easy to overmis-estimate what LLMs can do. Yesterday I wanted to extract all links from a long Whatsapp chat, because.. Whatsapp gives you only the raw text, but not all links in a long list. And I didn’t want to give the whole chat to Claude, so I ran Gemma 3:12B and.. it failed.
So I asked Claude, and it explained to me that this is indeed a difficult task for an LLM and I’d be better off running a simple Python script. And if delivered one straight away.
As I already had an environment installed, all I had to do was create a file with the code in the same folder as my Chat.txt, activate my environment in that folder, and run the script.
And within less than a second, I had a csv with all the links, timestamps, and messages accompanying the 1150 links. Impressive, I thought, what a computer can do when it runs simple logic.
So, AI is obviously not good for everything, but if you can let it write code and run that code on your computer, then.. you can do a lot.