Yeah, there's a little bit of flex there for sure. An example that recently came up for me at work was being able to take request:response pairs from networking events and turn them into a distributed trace. You can absolutely get an LLM to do that, but it's very slow and can mess up sometimes. But you can also do this 100% programmatically! The LLM route feels a little easier at first but it's arguably a bad application of the tech to the problem. I tried it out just for fun, but it's not something I'd ever want to do for real.

(separately, synthesizing a trace from this kind of data is impossible to get 100% correct for other reasons, but hey, it's a fun thing to try)