alt Hacker NewsAt sufficient levels of intelligence, one can increasingly substitute it for the other things.
Intelligence can be the difference between having to build 20 prototypes and building one that works first try, or having to run a series of 50 experiments and nailing it down with 5.
The upper limit of human intelligence doesn't go high enough for something like "a man has designed an entire 5th gen fighter jet in his mind and then made it first try" to be possible. The limits of AI might go higher than that.
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I like the substitution concept. What humans can do depends on the abstractions and the tools. One could picture just the shape of the jet and have a few ideas how to improve it further. If that is enough info for the tool it could be worthy of the label "designed by Jim".
Exceedingly elaborate, internally-consistent mind constructs, untested against the real world, sounds like a good definition of schizophrenia. May or may not correlate with high intelligence.