The coding aspect is a great example of why I am skeptical of the claim they cant reason (in its own way).
Something that can write a correct code snippet or even larger program that accepts the correct input and provides the correct output and otherwise is consistent with the given spec is doing something substantially more than just autocomplete.
I did say
> It's just generating text, in a coherent manner while following rhetoric processes as a solid attempt at logical thinking
So yeah, I do agree that they can make a very reasonable amount of reasoning. As a matter of fact, they reason about things better then an average Joe off the street ime.
That's entirely unrelated to what I said though, I think you misinterpreted/misunderstood what I wrote earlier.
They can make solid attempts at reasoning, its just not grounded in reality. It just applies these rhetoric processes to the current text - but it doesn't understand wherever it's actually correctly reasoned. Hence the answer "you're right to push back on this" is just the model being a sycophant. The sentence does not mean that anything of value has been communicated in either direction, and thinking that it has means the person in question is suffering from ai psychosis