Any program you write is encoded reasoning. I’d argue if-then statements are reasoning too. Even if you do write a garbage next word predictor, it would still

Any program you write is encoded reasoning. I’d argue if-then statements are reasoning too. Even if you do write a garbage next word predictor, it would still be reasoning. It’s just a qualitative assessment that it would be good reasoning. Again, what exactly is your definition of reasoning? It seems to be not well defined enough to have a discussion about in this context.