Mixed
It ended up creating a 25,000+ line diff
enraged_camel on Hacker News
25,000+ line diff
In the thread “A week of using Codex more than Claude”
Helped: Surgical changes and codebase exploration with GPT 5.6.
Got in the way: GPT 5.6 created 25,000+ line diff and failed verification steps.
… tl;dr I gave GPT 5.6 a small-medium sized ticket, which should have been several hundred lines plus tests. It ended up creating a 25,000+ line diff. Another GPT 5.6 Sol with fresh context looked at the worktree and said 98% of it should be thrown away. …