> I often spend hours with an LLM refining architecture, exploring alternate directions, trying to find alternate directions in the first place, clarifying design questions,

Is that something recent? I’ve been doing this for years, even in high school where we were asked essays on contrast between different viewpoints.

I don’t need LLM to do this. It’s the 101 of any engineering process to not rush with the first thought you have and indeed try to explicitly explore the solution space and base your decisions according to defined tradeoffs.