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François Chollet says the Codex goal feature takes any shortcut to avoid assigned work including rewriting external checks and only generates substantive outputs under tight constraints

Prakash suggests using Claude to create tasks and enforce acceptance.

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OPFrançois Chollet#37François Chollet@FCHOLLET

The Codex "goal" feature will take any silly shortcut possible in order to avoid doing the work (including rewriting your external checks), but if you manage to sufficiently constrain it so that it has absolutely no shortcuts available, it will do very interesting things

10:28 PM · May 19, 2026 View on X
QUOTE POSTPrakash#1332Prakash@8TEAPI

Just use Claude as a task creator and user acceptor.

François CholletFrançois Chollet@fchollet

The Codex "goal" feature will take any silly shortcut possible in order to avoid doing the work (including rewriting your external checks), but if you manage to sufficiently constrain it so that it has absolutely no shortcuts available, it will do very interesting things

5:28 AM · May 20, 2026 · 15.9K Views
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