Very interesting, and aligns with what I would expect in terms of the type of "thinking" LLMs do. I think that it's also the type of "thinking" that will let a student pass most school courses, except of course for the ones where the teacher has taken the time to pose test questions that aren't as amenable to pattern matching. (Hard, but I assume most readers here are familiar with leetcode style interviews and what makes questions of that kind higher or lower quality for assessing candidates)

(And yes, I know people are hard at work adding other types of thinking to work along with the pure language models)