I completely understand what you mean, as creator of boring and stable solutions deployed in production and in some cases still there untouched for nearly two decades. But no, I don't agree about the "it can consider a multitude of options a single person seldom can" part since it's not really what is happening right now, it does not work this way.

> So go ahead, try it. Feed it your design and ask about shortcomings; ask about risk management strategies; ask about refactoring and maintenance strategies; you'd probably be surprised.

Answers to this and other kinds of questions are in my opinion just a watered down version of actual thinking currently. Interesting but still too simple and not that actionable. What I mainly use LLMs for is exploring the space of solutions, that I will then investigate if there is something promising (mainly deep research of topics or possible half broken/random solutions to problems). I'm not really interested in an actual answer most of the time but more avenues for investigation that I didn't consider. Anyway, I'm not saying that AI is useless right now.