I was working on a project for 2 years with about 5 engineers. It was many years before AI. It was new subject for our team, and we were pretty sure it was possible. Turned out it was not.
Much later I asked AI if that kind of project is possible, and it immediately explained why it is not. Would have saved 2 years of our time...
Curious, what was the project?
Is it possible someone on the team published a blog post about why it wasn't possible? Or that otherwise the AI learned from your 5 years of effort? Some of the code made it on GitHub or something?
It's totally plausible that it didn't & it still got it right, I'm just curious.