@7666 i use gemini extensively to locate primary sources for obscure technical stuff, because it sits on google's search tooling. it "does" stuff like this all the time, you really notice the lack of formal reasoning once you apply it to anything formal. at most you can get it to regurgitate the most common way of doing x

like generally i find the pattern generation part completely underwhelming but i think people are sleeping on the pattern matching half of the equation