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nsingh2today at 4:26 PM1 replyview on HN

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...


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zuzululutoday at 7:13 PM

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.