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everything turns to disgusting slop if I don't provide: (1) Up-to-date AGENTS.md and an excellent prompt
aerhardt on Hacker News
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In the thread “Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max”, replying to this comment
Helped: Up-to-date AGENTS.md, full API signatures, multiple feedback rounds
Got in the way: Larger units of work and relaxed standards during crunch
The idea of giving it a task that may take six hours and reviewing it also gives me shivers. I'm a very happy Codex customer, but everything turns to disgusting slop if I don't provide: (1) Up-to-date AGENTS.md and an excellent prompt (2) A full file-level API with function signatures, return types and function-level guidance if it's a complex one …