Yes
However, Codex is much better at not doing that
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In the thread “Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3”, replying to this comment
Helped: Codex handled bug fixes without introducing regressions unlike previous models.
Got in the way: Model oscillated between bugs due to user misunderstanding constraints.
… I used to run into a related issue, where fixing a bug would add more bugs, to the point where it would not be able to progress past a given codebase complexity. However, Codex is much better at not doing that. There are some cases where the model kept going back and forth between two bugs, but I discovered that that was because I had misunderstood the constraints and was telling the model to do something impossible. …