Comment by gumby

> "the rockstar engineer spent a week bouncing their favorite nerf ball off the wall all week and then the solution came to them"

I wouldn’t call myself a rockstar but I did get a job after a summer internship which I mostly spent touring with the Grateful Dead. At the end of the summer I was in the office and the head of the research division said he hadn’t seen me much(!). I said I’d been thinking and had some ideas on how the group’s research plan was flawed and how to do it better. I then filled his whiteboard with off the cuff ideas.

I spent the next several years with a team implementing the whiteboard.

I like to think things work better these days, AI or no AI