Telling Codex It's Pedantic Triggers a Five-Minute Infinite Thought Loop
moyix · x · 2026-08-07
A researcher told OpenAI's Codex it was being pedantic, only for the AI coding assistant to get stuck in a continuous thinking loop for five minutes straight, prompting the author to say they were scared.
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