# Use LLMs to define tasks, not just do them

Published: 2025-10-31T18:00:00.000Z
Canonical: https://wow.pjh.is/journal/use-llms-to-define-tasks-not-just-do-them

[Azeem Azhar](https://www.exponentialview.co/p/seven-lessons-from-automating-our) writes:

> The biggest productivity gains come when people shift their role from doer to editor and orchestrator. When we use the LLM to lay out a framework, define categories or structure tasks, the rest of the workflow executes far more reliably.
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> As a result, we’ve stopped thinking of the LLM as a tool to do the task and started thinking of it as a tool to define the task.