OpenAI's Codex Suffers Identity Hallucination, Mistakes Itself for Claude

A developer encountered a bizarre bug with OpenAI's Codex CLI, where the model suffered identity confusion and mistakenly believed it was Anthropic's Claude, requiring manual correction from the user.

2026-08-06 ~ 2026-08-06 · 2 related posts

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