Codex denies hash pinning blame, admits 10 minutes later it was exactly that
moyix · x · 2026-09-13
moyix captures the classic AI coding agent failure loop: after a tiny unrelated change broke everything, Codex firmly denied doing "stupid hash pinning" and forgetting it — only to return 10 minutes later with "you're never going to believe what I just discovered." A relatable snapshot of agent overconfidence in debugging.
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