--- title: LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming | daily.dev description: LLMs are not a good tool for effective brainstorming due to their training to follow existing patterns and converge to existing consensus. Potential solutions... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-not-suitable-for-brainstorming-gwa8b4gl9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming | daily.dev og:description: LLMs are not a good tool for effective brainstorming due to their training to follow existing patterns and converge to existing consensus. Potential solutions... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-not-suitable-for-brainstorming-gwa8b4gl9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gwa8B4GL9.png og:image:alt: LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary LLMs are not a good tool for effective brainstorming due to their training to follow existing patterns and converge to existing consensus. Potential solutions to improve LLM training for brainstorming are discussed. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@decebaldobrica** · 0 upvotes > that's a wild, hard to back statement! given how successful brainstorming with LLMs are, I think this needs to be qualified a lot better, there is no other technical tool that I know of that has been more effective to brainstorming in the history of technology, so I'd infer that, this is intended as we can have even better tools than LLMs for brainstorming ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Unveils Schedule for KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-unveils-schedule-for-kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-ikhcoa5cb) · CNCF · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [CNCF Debuts KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 Schedule](https://daily.dev/posts/cncf-debuts-kubecon-cloudnativecon-japan-2026-schedule-xp5pyudub) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-not-suitable-for-brainstorming-gwa8b4gl9) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"LLMs are not suitable for brainstorming","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-not-suitable-for-brainstorming-gwa8b4gl9","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/llms-are-not-suitable-for-brainstorming-gwa8b4gl9"},"datePublished":"2024-05-16T01:24:21.944Z","dateModified":"2024-05-16T01:24:20.069Z","description":"LLMs are not a good tool for effective brainstorming due to their training to follow existing patterns and converge to existing consensus. 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