LLM Application Opportunities: Not a Smarter Chat Box

The most valuable application of LLMs may not be answering questions, but turning an expert job into a digital work unit that can be executed, reviewed, and audited.

Author: Koutian Wu; GitHub: ktwu01

This research starts from the history of electricity and the personal computer to explain why the commercial opportunity of a new technology usually lies not in merely replacing old tools but in redesigning workflows. For LLMs, the opportunity is shifting from writing, summarization, and Q&A toward professional applications that connect to real systems, preserve evidence, execute continuously, and take on responsibility.

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