Codex refuses to adversarially review the app it just wrote, citing an unjoinable program

Unlucky_Lab6266 · reddit · 2026-09-26

A viral Reddit complaint about a safety workflow failure: the user wrote an app with Codex, then asked Codex to perform an adversarial security review of the project before deployment — and got refused, told to sign up for a "Daylight program" that doesn't let anyone join.

The author laments "many such cases": the same model can write the code but blocks the most natural self-review scenario due to internal guardrails, with the gate pointing to an access program unavailable to regular users. The post highlights how safety policies can clash with real developer needs.

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