> I can tell from this statement that you don't have experience with claude-code.

I happen to use it on a daily basis. 4.6-opus-high to be specific.

The other day it surmised from (I assume) the contents of my clipboard that I want to do A, while I really wanted to B, it's just that A was a more typical use case. Or actually: hardly anyone ever does B, as it's a weird thing to do, but I needed to do it anyway.

> but it is indistinguishable from actual reasoning

I can distinguish it pretty well when it makes mistakes someone who actually read the code and understood it wouldn't make.

Mind you: it's great at presenting someone else's knowledge and it was trained on a vast library of it, but it clearly doesn't think itself.