> I just question how useful it truly is as a heuristic I think the author is presenting them as analytical tools that might or might not be useful depending o

> I just question how useful it truly is as a heuristic I think the author is presenting them as analytical tools that might or might not be useful depending on the situation. Very often when faced with a difficult problem it's hard to know where to start attacking. Any idea, even if simplistic and wrong, can be useful to start gaining insight on what is going to work and why; even just refuting the original idea with a clear counterargument might suggest alternative avenues. OT: this is IMO part of the reason why people like LLMs so much. Maybe the answer is trash, but articulating why it's trash gets you unstuck.