Reducto CEO Adit Abraham on why PDFs still break AI systems
Overview
Latent.Space's podcast features Reducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham discussing why PDFs still break AI systems, according to the episode announcement on X. Abraham says frontier models can silently drop rows from documents, and that 99% accuracy can fall short in production.
The episode also covers what Reducto learned from processing a billion pages a month, and what office work would need to reach a "Claude Code moment."
A follow-up post from Latent.Space host swyx announces a cooking-show episode in which Abraham shares Reducto's PDF processing approach while the two make steak sandwiches. That post repeats the topics of silently dropped rows and the billion-page volume.
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swyx@swyxXLatent Space's cooking show features Reducto's PDF processing recipeAIswyx announces a new episode of Latent Space's cooking show, where Reducto CEO Adit Abraham reveals Reducto's PDF processing approach while the pair make steak sandwiches. The episode also covers why frontier models silently drop rows and what Reducto learned processing a billion pages a month.

Latent.Space@latentspacepodXReducto CEO Adit Abraham on why PDFs still break AIAIReducto co-founder and CEO Adit Abraham joins Allen Park on Latent.Space to discuss why PDFs still break AI, including frontier models silently dropping rows and why 99% accuracy can fall short in production. The episode also covers what Reducto learned processing a billion pages a month and what office work would need to reach a Claude Code moment.

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