Codex quality feels worse after updates
2 posts from 2 people2d activeSteady, +1 this weekunverified
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The posts behind it
Google's agent team says test discrete behaviors, not just benchmark scores. How do you catch an agent getting worse after a prompt, tool or model change?
...harness engineering post attacks the same problem from the build side. When the agent struggled, they treated it as a missing capability and fed the fix back into the repo as docs, guardrails or tooling.. Both are about coding agents with specific tooling, so I don't know how...
Just yesterday tried Intellij ai assistant setup and it sucks. I mainly use Cursor but also have Codex sub, and since version 3.15 Cursor made changes that nerfed Codex experience inside IDE, so I reluctantly look for replacement that could allow me to use both from a single...
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Evidence
2 posts from 2 people in 2 places, about 1 a week over 42 days. Mostly on Hacker News comments, r/AI_Agents. Tools named alongside: Cursor, JetBrains, Harness.
Frustration Frustration 3 of 3· Seen on Hacker News, Reddit
How it was grouped
Posts that state a pain and match the "model-regression" rule about Codex. First post Sep 22, 2026, latest Nov 2, 2026. Unverified: fewer than 3 posts, or one person or place only. Method
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