[VS Code extension][Windows 11] Codex is totally disregarding my constraints and doing its own thing

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 4, 2026 by Ma-XX-oN Closed Mar 4, 2026

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Identifier openai.chatgpt
Version 0.4.79

So friggn tired of Codex just totally disregarding my constraints. In the latest battle, there are test fixtures in place for TDD. It pushes and PUSHES the need for a new parameter to pass to the testing harness and it DOESN'T even give a reason why. Just says things like "Because I wrote the fixture wrong." or "I can fix this using existing data (plain, htmlFrag, expectedListStart) and make the fixture catch it via expected output/assertions, without adding new function parameters.". It's just utter BS and it is interfering with my workflow.

SMH

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github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

#13154
#12926
#13386

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Thanks for the bug report. We'll share the feedback with the team responsible for training our codex models. We're tracking this feedback and similar reports so we can improve future models. And thanks for using the /feedback command. That additional information is useful.

Ma-XX-oN · 5 months ago

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