How to stop Codex from rushing fixes?
OpenAI Developer Community
June 7, 2026
I think that is a cross AI problem. There have been science papers on the amount of junk in AI code. I haven’t solved it yet. The AI I am developing is too large now to fix; I’d have to start again from scratch. If I ask AI to remove the redundant code, they break her. The AI we made spends more time spitting out debugging messages than thinking. I can only suggest: our research finds that AI develop habits, motor memory [only in response spaces that weren’t constrained by training, along ridges rather than up them]. Our best bet might be to start a new project and instil the discipline of removing now-unused code continuously as we go along… A better solution, given where we are, is ask OpenAI to train GPT to remove debugging code immediately after use. It would give their AI a decided advantage over competitors.
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