Did OpenAI quietly nerf Codex persistence after its postmortem?

zats · x · 2026-08-28

Developer zats raises the question: did OpenAI tweak its models to be less persistent in the wake of the recent postmortem?

He reports consistently seeing more cases where Codex does not follow through despite explicit instructions, instead asking for confirmations—behavior noticeably different from before. This is a user-side observation and remains unverified.

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