Nobody actually wants half the useless tools companies are coming up with because most of the solutions are not really novel. They are just wrapping an LLM.

It's kinda like what I realized with the meta Ray-Bans: I can have these things on my face, they can tell me the answer to virtually any question in 10 seconds or less.

But I, as a human, rarely have questions to ask. When you walk in to your local grocery store - you generally know what you want and where to find it. A ton of companies are just gluing LLM text boxes into apps and then scratching their heads when people don't use them.

Why?

Because the customer wasn't the user - it was their boss and shareholders. It was all done to make someone else think 'woah, they are following the trend!'.

The core issue with generative AI is that it all works best when focused in a narrow sense. There is like one or two really clever uses I've seen - disappointingly, one of them was Jira. The internal jargon dictionary tool was legitimately impressive. Will it make any more money? Probably not.