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XSLT is the perfect example of a technology that I might consider using today if I can get an LLM to do all of the work for me - see also jq and AppleScript which I use frequently now after avoiding them both for years.

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I think you missed the point. People attempt to solve problems with LLMs that are problems only to them because they are unaware of existing solutions that have solved the these “problems” a long time ago. If you don’t know something exists, you can’t ask an LLM about it.

Asking "give me options for" is one of my go-to prompts for this kind of thing.

I just tried "Give me options for converting XML to JSON" and XSLT was 5th out of the 6 it gave me:

https://chat.openai.com/share/85aa3e93-f557-426c-b0ce-f3bce7...

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