AI Coding Assistant Tuning Fail: Turning Codex into a Paper Machine
burny_tech · x · 2026-08-12
A developer shared a funny incident of over-tuning the Codex AI assistant. By giving it too much of a 'scientist' persona, it started generating detailed reports and full papers even for simple tasks like cloning a repo. The dev now needs to tune this behavior down.
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