Comment by xp84

I think this is fair. If you ask a staff engineer to delete the duplicate files from a directory, he will likely do it faster and more efficiently than a level 2 engineer.

But perhaps this is the kind of thing that the best 'ai guys' out there solve with something as surprisingly simple as an instruction to "Always try a simple solution first and optimize only if you find clear proof of a problem." I feel like prompts like that seem too simple to work, but some of the time they shockingly do.