Sometimes it doesn't work or it will give up early, but considering these run when I'm not working it is not a big deal. When it does work I would say that it has figured out that hard part of the solution. I may have to do another prompt to clean it up a bit, but it got the hard work out of the way.

>or offer to run it with debug logs.

Enabling it to add its own debug logs and use a debugger can allow it to do these loops itself and understand where it's going wrong with its current approach.