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Verified this locally myself. Thanks for the concrete test. I guess it's time to give Claude another try.

This is preliminary, but it seems like it might somehow be related to the `## Intermediary updates` system prompt that's provided to the model. Seems like it forces the model to stop thinking and return early to provide updates. Removing that entirely makes all runs succeed [1].

I wonder if it's somehow getting confused between what's supposed to be an intermediate update vs the final result.

[1] https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/30364#issuecomment-48...

yea i just tried it and it works!!! i dont know why it works but now gpt 5.5 feels exactly like how I remembered it a month and half ago.

I would switch to Claude if they kept Fable 5 in the sub

I'm also afraid to lose my "spot" if I leave codex and 5.6 is coming out so...

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