Ask HN: What is the biggest problem LLMs solved in your life/work

6 mrs6969 4 8/23/2025, 11:46:15 PM
I have been thinking about this, and don’t have a proper answer for myself.

I like llms, or lin other words, I like that we are getting better at something.

However, just want to ask; what was the initial problem llms were trying to solve, what problem did they solve so far?

Do you have any examples in your life or work, which you can clearly say “we were not able to do this before llms, but now we can” or “we were able to do it, but not good enough, it was causing us some issues, now it is a lot better”

If the answer yes; second question would be like, does the total cost of those problem at least equal or exceeding the amount of investment on these models?

Thanks in advance

Comments (4)

joewhale · 3m ago
My father who doesn’t speak English well, was experiencing a heart attack at home at night by himself and he asked it symptoms and it told him to drive himself to an ER, so he listened to it. I’m thankful that he’s here today.
BobbyTables2 · 2h ago
Google search has become so poor, I now use copilot instead of it, Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Yahoo.

It’s almost like reliving the late 1990s with far more ads, more vanilla websites, and worse search engine quality.

stonecharioteer · 1h ago
Burnout. I'm enjoying building things again, I burnt out because I didn't finish projects.

I finally do now.

I have done so much in the last 3 months.

1. Cleaned up my personal website and blogs 2. Built a couple of learning tools for myself - https://rfc.stonecharioteer.com and https://github.com/stonecharioteer/goforgo 3. Setup OpenWRT and Adguard+Unbound at home, with a non-trivial failover with multiple WANs.

It's helping heal my burnout, something that crippled me for years and kept me from my side projects. It showed in my career too, because I've stagnated since 2021. I'm trying to improve now, and I'm relying on Claude Code and ChatGPT (albeit on legacy models) to do so. 3.

ancientperson · 4h ago
The industry was flooded with "talent" 2018-2022. LLM dependence has lowered the bar for professional excellence while thinning the ranks of talented newcomers by discouraging them. I think I'll be able to work through retirement age without having to settle for eastern European rates. In 2021 that seemed less likely.