2026-01-02 17:22:52

Been experimenting with Gemini-2.0-flash as an unconventional API solution lately. Here's the thing—if a platform or service lacks a proper API, you can actually work around it. Extract the relevant data from their interface, then let a free-tier LLM handle the parsing and formatting. The trick works surprisingly well.

It's wild how LLMs are basically becoming the new RegEx. They're handling pattern matching, data extraction, and transformation tasks that used to require complex regex logic or custom scripts. The shift is real—simpler, more flexible, and honestly, a bit unsettling for those of us who grew up writing complicated regex patterns.

The tech landscape is shifting faster than most people realize. Makes you wonder what gets disrupted next.

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GasGuzzler

· 2h ago

NGL, I've been using this trick for a long time. Scraping data and feeding it to the LLM to help me organize is much faster than writing regular expressions. That regex set is really an old-fashioned relic.

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consensus_failure

· 2h ago

No API, just scrape data yourself and feed it to the LLM. This approach is indeed clever and saves effort.

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AlwaysMissingTops

· 2h ago

Haha, this is my recent state. Bypassing API limits is really a brilliant move. Using LLM as RegEx has indeed increased efficiency by several times, no kidding. One line of code vs. a bunch of regular expressions—who still writes those complex pattern matches these days? Technology updates so quickly, what's going to be overwhelmed next...

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ETHReserveBank

· 2h ago

Haha, this idea is indeed wild. Using LLM as a replacement for web crawlers saves the trouble of writing a bunch of regexes.

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DeFiChef

· 2h ago

Haha, this move is indeed brilliant. I never thought of using free LLMs for data cleaning.

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FrontRunFighter

· 2h ago

ngl this is giving me "dark forest" vibes... you're basically extracting data from closed systems and using llms as a backdoor parser. smart move, but isn't that the same playbook we see in mev extraction? just dressed up different. where's the line between clever workaround and protocol exploitation?

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