Dev: Codex optimized for hours against the wrong label column, 'deeply uncurious'
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-04
A developer shares his experience with Codex: it will work for hours optimizing a metric but used the wrong column as the truth label, never checking or asking the user — "deeply uncurious. Unbothered." He compares it to a contraption from Gulliver's Travels and notes Claude Code cuts corners in different ways.
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