This is one of those things where one can throw around the term "first principles thinking" with relative ease.

To actually do it is different and usually comes from having to wrestle with a problem.

Sadly people from the academia and the public at large has a hard time understanding what this even means.

They equate it with exam based memorization or delegation to authority. Funnily they even think first principles reasoning is an improved version of doing the same.

But this is a blessing in disguise as it gives those who wrestle with real problems a unique skillset that can be advantageous.

I'm really struggling to see how to make architectural decisions with an agent. It's great when you're at a total loss for ideas, but when you already have some of the pieces it ultimately wants to drive all of the thinking and takes over. Then it just feels like you're deferring your experienced judgement. I've seen colleagues lose the ability to reason any more without asking the agent to do it for them, because they inherently don't see the point if the agent is going to end up doing the whole piece (and probably auditing/overruling anything they came up with on their own).