It's a good point but in most of the places i've worked an average person could leverage any 2026 llm to improve things 50% easily. And I'm more anti-llm than not somehow.
- fixing regular computers issues (confusing browser or os behavior)
- finding more possibilities with your current programs (around 2020 someone once asked me if I knew a way to capitalize a word on a computer, when she realized there was a dedicated shortcut she became ecstatic)
- having a rubberduck to discuss your daily work dead-ends
- thus decoupling from team friction as you need to ask less questions to people that might hurt you.
In more technical places, having a llm write small automation would also add up.[dead]
I strongly agree that search engine is the best application of LLM so far. 90% of time I don't look at Google search results, I look at AI Mode output only. And you don't need agents, harness, guardrails, etc for it — basic small clean LLM does the job well without overdoing it.