Comment by sigbottle

> 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.

It's really good at doing this at project definition time and annoying the shit out of you by not understanding the specific constraints about your problem. That needs to be done first. Then it can start suggesting improvements alongside the high level "vision". The point of high level visions is that they move fast and are hard to specify - yet people treat it as if these things don't exist. If you don't trust your own consciousness, then I don't know what to tell you

But I'm not sure this is safe either. I'm sure AI can get to the positive case of contributing positively.

The flip side is that, well, your specific wishes don't matter because AI is just a superset of who. Who cares what meatbags what?