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Pretty incredible how instead of .txt or .csv or .rtf or .html, we collectively landed on “discretely positioned lines of text and vector graphics broken up into arbitrarily-sized rectangles encoded with a declarative subset of a proprietary scripting language” as our de facto format for sharing data.

Like, just imagine the collective human hours we could have saved on data entry in the post-printer–pre-LLM era if not for this impedance mismatch.

https://x.com/deedydas/status/1897726053759725670