Comment by recursivecaveat

This is close to my experience with code. LLMs can pick out small mistakes from giant code changes with surprising accuracy, or slowly narrow down a weird. On the other hand I've seen them bravely shoulder on under completely incorrect conceptual models of what they're working with and churn around in circles consequently, spin up giant piles of slop to re-implement something they decided was necessary, but didn't bother to search for, or outright dismiss important error signals as just 'transient failures'. Unlimited stamina, low wisdom.