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what a great article, I loved seeing the links that Krebs (?)/Unit 221B (?) dug up and all the info they managed to connect. It felt like I was reading a detective story. It sounds like this guy is doomed, the NSA application date alone basically identifies him

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221B is 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes lived.

If you have enough data, i wonder how much of this digging can be automated these days with good LLM prompts. Doing it manually is very time-consuming.

The real work doesn't happen in the LLM.

Having worked with LLMs over the past year+ trying to get them to do useful things in various contexts, the real work is typically pretty boring data acquisition (e.g. scraping) + ETL and then making that data available to the LLM.

I think this whenever I read a modern detective novel (Bosch). So much of their work seems to be looking up data from different databases and trying to make connections or recognize patterns.

I assume the FBI or whomever has automated this to some degree already, and I really hope someone does a great writeup of how LLMs/agents can do even more.

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