Exactly, LLM is good at "code inpainting" : define clear structures and goals, and it will fill the boilerplate. But it doesn't work for reasoning and abstraction, so it fails to synthesise and propose novel views. But that's integral to the way it's designed and has been trained, to do a kind of "averaging" which limits it's capacity to explore novel designs

> But it doesn't work for reasoning and abstraction, so it fails to synthesise and propose novel views

I disagree. Have a conversation with it about your problem and work through design decisions with it. When I do that, I find it gives me a lot of good ideas.

Disclaimer: I'm not working on anything groundbreaking (like most people)