Anthropic admits Codex safety blocks were mostly accidental and are being fixed

esrtweet · x · 2026-10-26

A debate over Codex safety guardrails: @tszzl explains the blocks were mostly accidental results of difficult decision boundaries, with no prohibition on reverse engineering via Codex, and says a fix is coming. @esrtweet argues that if guardrails can't avoid bogus blocks, they should be scrapped entirely to actually empower users.

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