I admit it, I hate paperwork, and I suspect many of you feel the same way. Still, we have to live with it: contracts, invoices, utility bills and documents of every kind are part of real life.
This is surely where AI can lend a hand: documents are essentially text, and LLMs are pretty good at handling text. Will local models be too? We’ll find out soon.
The perfect software, like the perfect hardware, doesn’t exist: it depends on what you want to achieve.
I favour stability and reliability, and I always use open-source software or, in the case of LLMs, open-weight models. In AI everything changes at breakneck speed: chasing every new release is impossible and not very useful either, but you often find yourself having to try a new version of something or tweak a delicate parameter. It takes next to nothing to break everything, beyond repair. Without a solid safety net, the PC stays out of action until you find the time to fix it.