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Just use CALDAV; it's designed for making calendar entries automatically via email. I'm not hip with the fashion for putting an LLM into everything. I think it's lazy.

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That's a great solution to a different problem. Unless caldav has a process for extracting dates and actions from unstructured emails? But that doesn't seem related to caldav.

Point taken; you do need a CALDAV client to source or consume CALDAV messages, which are indeed very much structured.

IDK about "lazy", but it's certainly an extremely expensive solution.

Isn't the expensive part of LLM's the training? My understanding is once they are trained they can often be optimized to run quite cheaply. Not as cheaply as a well designed program but cheaply enough it shouldn't be too prohibitive to run.

I'd love to be shown I'm wrong; but I thought most 'runtime' LLMs required a shit-ton of memory. Just downloading one seems to require more storage than I have on this laptop.

A 3B model runs on Android phones from 2 years ago at 6 tkns/s.

I'm not sure what you're comparing this to or how you're making this comparison—can you enlighten us?

(Somehow I doubt whatever caldav software the above poster references takes more than a second to process multiple emails.)

I don't think it's a comparison - they're just saying that it's fast enough even on old mobile hardware, so it can be used on new hardware even faster.

I don't have a problem with a background task taking a minute or something...

Cost isnt a relevant factor for this

If I'm generating the data, sure, I'll use CALDAV.

But for ingesting unstructured data I didn't generate, I'm going to reach for an LLM now (provided latency isn't an issue).

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