No, I've played with all the reasoning models and they just make the noise and weirdness even worse. When I dig into every little issue, it's always something incredibly bespoke. Like the actual documentation that's on the internet is out of date for the library that was installed and the API changed, the way the one library works in one language is not how it works in the other language, just all manner of surprising things. I really learned a lot about the limits of digital representation of information.