Codex politely pushes back on a user's hallucinated claims — "I'm also a journalist"
MikePFrank · x · 2026-10-06
Mike Frank tests GPT-2-adjacent prompting with Codex (Sol-6.1), which politely challenges his hallucinated assertions — including his claim of being "also a journalist and a software engineer." A funny look at how new coding agents politely resist user confabulation.
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