@AskNate , I tend to believe the brainstorming dimension may ultimately be where AI produces some of its greatest value. The ability to rapidly generate angles, surface adjacent possibilities, challenge assumptions, and accelerate early-stage ideation is already quite powerful.

That said, I have a serious question.

Do you think these tools can truly replace the highest form of brainstorming — that big blue sky, non-linear, exponential style of thinking that seems to come so naturally to a small number of exceptional minds? I am thinking here of people who do not simply iterate on existing ideas, but who seem to reframe the problem itself and open entirely new conceptual pathways.

In other words, can AI eventually match that level of generative thought, or will it remain strongest as an amplifier and thought partner for human thinkers operating at that level?

I am genuinely curious how you see that boundary evolving.

Cheers, Lou.