Got it. Real innovation have almost no audience. Any things that seems to be innovation may be not real yet. So there is much people to do the same things, I'm just one person among them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
who knew that man would set foot on the moon based on some assumptions about conservation of momentum and the kinetic theory of gases.
Myself I was involved in several projects in the 2010s, both working for other people and myself, that were going in the direction of today's chatbots. The technology was not ready!
I thought this talk was up to the minute when I gave it
https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/chatbots-in-2017-ithaca...
and three years later felt time had passed it by, and today it seems prophetic.
I remember being very impressed back then by their chat bots, how conversational they were, even though now it’s obsoleted by LLMs.