"I can think of tons of things I do in my day-to-day programming that, while certainly not new or remarkable advances in technology, are at least new enough that you're not going to find a Stack Overflow thread for it."

I don't. I might solve current issues, new error messages from new/other libraries etc. but not something novel new.

"reasoning": thinking about a problem, reasoning about potential solutions, estimating the best action, executing it, retrying.

Reasoning in sense of, if the error message indicates a hibernate issue, reducing the search space for solution finding.