we _did_ manage to produce these reports 4K output tokens at a time at a level of quality that exceeded what humans could do internally

… That involved crunching a LOT of data (multiple hours of meeting transcripts per week, very detailed notes about student activities, their general profile - UK and US admissions function very differently!) It was a difficult problem, but we _did_ manage to produce these reports 4K output tokens at a time at a level of quality that exceeded what humans could do internally, and models+the surrounding tooling have only gotten better since then.