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NoCodex, Claude Code · 2 Feb 2026

It randomly decides to stop being agentic, and instead just dumps the code for me to paste

jtrn on Hacker News

In the thread “The Codex App”

Got in the way: Ignored explicit version instructions, installed outdated packages, failed to execute tasks.

… It does not follow instructions. It randomly decides to stop being agentic, and instead just dumps the code for me to paste. It has the extremely annoying habit of just doing stuff without understanding what I meant, making a mess, then claiming everything is fine. …