Codex spent 30 minutes investigating a 2-frame audio difference
___Patrice___ · x · 2026-08-10
A developer shared their hardcore experience using OpenAI Codex for code migration. To meet the prompt's demand for an exact match, Codex exhibited extreme OCD: it spent over half an hour obsessing over a 2-frame discrepancy in the reference audio stream, and after running for 20 hours, continued trying to debug a 22KB file size difference in a generated 1.4MB video.
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