> If you are an engineer, how often has an LLM told you (without you explicitly prompting for it): Wait, what you are doing here doesn't really make sense, there exists a much more elegant abstraction that nobody has thought of, let's remove all that code, let's tackle the problem in a different way by thinking from first principles.

I explicitly request it. It's not great at coming up with interesting ideas, but neither am I, and it can sure iterate on them faster than I can...