With LLMs, you're still mostly read things "off the tip of the tongue". A better comparison is observing a smart person talking to themselves while working on a tough problem.
EDIT: also there's a reason the dial is called "effort", not "smarts".
EDIT: also there's a reason the dial is called "effort", not "smarts".
Of course I don't know if there's really a way for this to be molded in current LLM's (sounds more like diffusion)
They work on a problem until their brain is full of problem-related concepts. Then something comes. After validation it might be a solution.