Codex, asked what makes it unique, just recites its docs in a wall of text
altryne · x · 2026-09-14
Follow-up to altryne's agent-uniqueness experiment: when asked what makes it special, Codex (on Astra) replied with a wall of text that essentially reads "I read the docs, here are some features" — completely missing the point, as the screenshot shows. It further confirms his finding that agent self-descriptions are pure marketing word soup.
Related event: Agents Fail to Justify Their Own Uniqueness in Experiment(2 posts)→
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