Helpful LLM Use Cases
List of My LLM Use Cases (Daily or Weekly)
Chat & Learning
- TA: Rephrase and ask questions to understand text.
- Especially when someone speaks obscurely or from another field.
- Image-based concept explanation (math, etc.), term extraction, etc.
- Turn screenshot of slides to structured markdown text
- One-time unstructured data to structured (small size)
- Summarize transcription into study notes
- Socratic learning: Explore a topic with a beginner's mind via Q&A.
- Fight bureaucracy by throwing questions to the chat
- Brainstorming architecture and strategy
- Draft and refine proposals quickly
Productivity & Personal Workflows
- Granola for study notes from lectures or talks
- Create a prompt for a recurring agent task: e.g. read rss and summarize. It's more comprehensive and machine ready than hand crafted for most use cases.
- Financial analysis on investment opportunity based on my thesis
- Q&A helper for using apps and softwares, much faster than search
Coding Agent
- Write and update README files
- Understand code
- Migration
- Internal tool building (no security, not scalable)
- One-time scripting for automation
- One-off app development or early prototype
New Tools Available Due to the AI Hype
- Browse agent
- Better OCR and standardized document processing