Codex Fails Spectacularly at Writing Shaders
generativist · x · 2026-07-12
The post recounts a piece of "slop theatre": Fable 5 had a group of Codex 5.6 Sol agents try to write metal shaders, but "nothing succeeded," resulting instead in a highly entertaining display of failures.
The highlight isn't a technical conclusion, but rather the sheer absurdity of massive automated generation and repeated attempts failing completely.
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