"I gave it stuff but it didn't use it": structured inputs are the fix, says KarlMuth
KarlMuth · x · 2026-09-03
Responding to a common user complaint — "I gave it stuff, but it didn't seem to use stuff" — KarlMuth's first piece of advice is that structure matters: feeding "a pile of PDFs" is not the structured library he advocates. Screenshot shows an anonymized example from Veers.
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