# Ask HN: What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM? > Source: > Published: 2026-08-04 22:57:28+00:00 | |||||||||||| 3 points by | For CLI tools, humans like visually organized text possibly with colors or TUIs. Machines likes tabs-separated tabular data, or json and similar. What's the equivalent for LLMs for tabular or structured data? What makes them grasp the data easily and efficiently? | ||||||||||| Applications are open till July 27. |