> AI really wants to use Project Panama

It would help if you briefly specified the AI you are using here. There are wildly different results between using, say, an 8B open-weights LLM and Claude Opus 4.6.

I've been using several. LM Studio and any of the open weight models that can fit my GPU's RAM (24GB) are not great in this area. The Claude models are slightly better but not worth they extra cost most of the time since I typically have to spend almost the same amount of time reworking and re-prompting, plus it's very easy to exhaust credits/tokens. I mostly bounce back and forth between the codex and Gemini models right now and this includes using pro models with high reasoning.