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Put the LLM Upstream, Not in the Loop

TL;DR for operators The most consequential choice in this paper is where the LLM is allowed to act. It does not decide whether simulated farms adopt solar panels. Instead, it works upstream: drafting behavioural rubrics and techno-economic scenarios that humans inspect, validate against explicit rules, freeze, and then feed into an existing calibrated simulation. ...

September 21, 2026 · 7 min · Zelina