How to stop Codex from rushing fixes?
OpenAI Developer Community
June 7, 2026
I know that. I have a degree in both Physics and Psychology. You’ve basically built semantic memory, just one tiny part of the human brain. But they are excellent pattern matchers. Their “hallucinations” [misnomer, it’s not a sensory disorder] are abductive inferences in areas of sparse data, so they are hypothesis generators beyond compare. And science is a procedure, so they CAN learn scientific method.
Answer to comment below; I’ve reached my message limit: I wasn’t complaining. I came here, to the wrong place, to suggest OpenAI permit yearly subscriptions [I bought Claude when I was accidentally flush with money, GPT i could afford last month, not this]. But then I noticed a lot of the complaints were due to not using AI correctly so thought I’d pipe up. Sorry, I got distracted. 12 hours later… I’ll go see where I should be
Ooh, another question. First of all, our studies show they map concepts, not words [response invariant to synonyms]. “Learn” means have a better mental model, reality test, develop habits. Employ a new strategy and you get a Piagetian step-wise improvement in performance. AI would call it “Aha!”.
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