I don't want to downplay the effort here but from my experience you can get yourself a neat interactive summary html with a short prompt and a good model (Opus 4.5+, Codex 5.2+, etc).

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jbdamask 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Totally fair, I addressed this in my original post.

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earthscienceman 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Can you give am example of the most useful prompting you find for this? I'd like to interact with papers just so I can have my attention held. I struggle to motivate myself to read through something that's difficult to understand

	▲	jbdamask 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I replied to a comment above with the system prompt. Something I've learned is that the standard, "Summarize this paper" doesn't do a great job because summaries are so subjective. But if you tell a frontier LLM, like Opus 4.6, "Turn this paper into an interactive web page highlighting the most important aspects" it does a really good job. There are still issues with over/under weighting the various aspects of a paper but the models are getting better. What I find fascinating is that LLMs are great at translation so this is an experiment in translating papers into software, albeit very simple software.