[abalashov]

Despite my very limited enthusiasm for agentic coding, I have some experience with it, and my experience matches what you say perfectly. This is one of the seams that runs between pattern recognition and reasoning, and--despite the marketing claims around chain of thought--LLMs do not reason, not in the slightest.

All attempts to make them appear to reason are basically recursive confinement efforts by the harness, to try to get the lightning into the bottle.