That's just not true. They're not "reasoning" anything, they're assembling code that appears similar to something they were trained on, within whatever addition

That's just not true. They're not "reasoning" anything, they're assembling code that appears similar to something they were trained on, within whatever additional language training constraints they're given. I've never had an LLM spit out code that didn't need fixing, which defeats the purpose of preferring them over a re-compiler anyways.