Great question. Yes and no.

My brain is great at connecting dots across complex systems once the information is present. That's the pattern recognition part, and you're right, we evolved for that.

What my brain can't reliably do is hold six months of granular context (fertilizer dates, pest history, pruning schedules) in working memory so the pattern recognition has something to work with. The AI isn't replacing the thinking. It's loading the context my brain needs to do the thinking it's already good at.