Right, but typically making those kind of mistakes creates more work for yourself and with the benefit of experience you get better at recognizing the red flags to avoid getting in that situation again. but it

Which is why I think the parent post had a great observation about human problem solving having evolved in a universe inherently formed by the additive effect of every previous decision you've ever made made in your life.

There's a lot of variance in humans, sure, but inescapable stakes/skin in the game from an instinctual understanding that you can't just revert to a previous checkpoint any time you screw up. That world model of decisions and consequences helps ground abstract problem solving ability with a healthy amount of risk aversion and caution that LLMs lack.