# LLMs As Conduits for Data Portability Between Apps - MacStories

<https://www.macstories.net/notes/llms-for-data-portability/>

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## What Jamie wrote

For small data migration tasks from one app to another I’m inclined to just "do it by hand". Now with LLMs in the middle you can do much larger jobs that way.

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