Comment by survirtual

No, it couldn't have unless these ideas were sandwiched between other ideas that it could interpolate between.

You have to approach genai as a high-dimensional interpolation machine. It can perform extrapolation when you, the user, provide enough information to operate on. It can interpolate between what you provide and what it knows as well.

With these constraints, it is still pretty powerful, and I am generalizing of course. But in my experience, it is terrible at truly novel implementations of anything. It makes countless mistakes, because it continually attempts to fit to patterns found in existing code.

So you can really see the weaknesses at the frontier. I would encourage experimenting there to confirm what I am saying.