When you try wing your way through a question by pattern matching, then you are not applying intelligence. Your interests lie elsewhere and so you are just fumbling your way through the activity at hand just to get through it.

This is something that the rise of LLMs has highlighted for me. Sometimes, we don't care to apply our intelligence to a problem. I've come to think of myself as "acting like an LLM" when I do this.

It reminds me of Kahneman's "system 1" (fast) and "system 2" (slow) thinking. LLMs are system 1 - fast, intuitive, instinctual. Humans often think that way. But we can also break out system 2 when we choose to, and apply logic, reason, etc.