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.