The AI Opportunity Lies in Workflows, Not Models
CarlaVennis · reddit · 2026-07-06
The author argues that almost all AI builders are currently using similar large models, meaning models are no longer a moat. The real winners are companies that identify a specific, often unglamorous workflow pain point outside the tech bubble and build meticulously around it to make AI genuinely useful. The author reflects on their early mistake of looking at model capabilities first and reverse-engineering use cases. The right approach is to deeply understand a specific role's daily, painful, and slow workflow, and then introduce AI as an intervention tool. Models have become a commodity; workflows are the actual product.
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