Reddit asks: what problems could LLMs make possible, not just faster?
Puzzleheaded_Trip374 · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit thread asks whether LLMs have enabled genuinely new solutions, not just speedups of coding, planning, and research that were already possible. The author compares earlier inventions like electricity and fire, which unlocked entirely new capabilities, and notes that LLMs' most novel contribution so far seems to be generating hypotheses humans wouldn't think of. Readers are invited to share concrete cases from their fields and which specific LLM ability made the difference.
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