I came here to say pretty much the same. It is so tiring to hear opinions like these from technically-minded people who clearly lack "better-than-average" creat

I came here to say pretty much the same. It is so tiring to hear opinions like these from technically-minded people who clearly lack "better-than-average" creativity and lateral thinking skills. LLMs are garbage-in garbage-out in terms of brainstorming. If you aren't good at brainstorming without LLMs then they won't be much use. So many people are just seeing their own limits reflected back at them. When I'm brainstorming math or cryptography or philosophy with an LLM it is only because of the connections and leaps that I introduce that leads to novel and amusing discoveries. You have to develop successful patterns. Coaxing and condensing. Drilling into numbered lists. Asking for tables with progressively more columns and altered sorting. You have to know the spatial reasoning limits of the model. Asking for enumeration and disabling of social niceties. The number of skills needed is probably beyond most people's imaginations.