Codex is bloating large-codebase tests so much they become unreadable
anpaure · x · 2026-07-29
The post jokes that Codex can bloat unit tests in a large codebase so badly that they become unreadable "Neuralese." When agents start failing, they often delete those tests and regenerate them from scratch, which the author calls an impending "Test Bankruptcy."
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