This seems like a worthwhile listen. As it stands I think that LLMs sort of suck at this. Either that or I don't understand what analogous thinking is or people who use LLMs to facilitate this kind of thinking are bad at it too.

But I think that LLMs are bad at something that has to do with taking seemingly disparate concepts and assimilating one into the other to convey a novel idea.

Like these articles...

<https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer>

<https://zed.dev/blog/agentic-xanadu>

...are anything but convincing once you read past the gravitas that the LLM lends the prose.