Comment by kybernetikos
14 hours ago
I would describe that as a method or implementation, not as an application.
Almost all knowledge work can be described as "generating a useful sequence of words or word like tokens", but I wouldn't hire a screen writer to do the job of a lawyer or a copy editor to do the job of a concierge or an HR director to do the job of an advertising consultant.
So then the challenge is valid but you just can’t think of any ways to satisfy it. You said yourself that chat is just the interface.
That means you should be able to find many popular applications that leverage LLM APIs that are a lot different than the interface of ChatGPT.
But in reality, they’re all just moving the chat window somewhere else and streamlining the data input/output process (e.g., exactly what Cursor is doing).
I can even think of one product that is a decent example of LLMs in action without a chat window. Someone on HN posted a little demo website they made that takes SEC filings and summarizes them to make automatic investor analysis of public companies.
But it’s kind of surprising to me how that little project seems to be in the minority of LLM applications and I can’t think of two more decent examples especially when it comes to big successful products.