> 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. Pretty much never.

Uh, quite often for me. I explain the problem and my thoughts on the solution and it tells me whether that's good or if there's a better first principles way. I didn't explicitly prompt it but it knows enough from its thinking trace to say, wait.