Ah, so I need to pay 100s of $ and use the "frontier" model, which is always a moving BS excuse. Last month Opus 4.5 was the frontier, gotta use it, now it's 4.6, and none of them so far have produced anything consistently good.

It is NOT reasoning about code. It's a glorified autocomplete that wastes energy. Associating "reasoning" to it is an antropomorphizateion.

And calling hallucinations "lateral thinking" is a fucking stretch.

"Let's use tool `foo` with flag `-b`" even if the man page doesn't even mention said flag.

Sure, they might be able to create numerous iterations of containers, testing them, burning resources....but that is literally a thousand monkeys smashing their heads on typewriters to crank out 4chan posts.