GPT-5 Codex is repeatedly refusing to perform large tasks.

What version of Codex is running?

0.38.0

Which model were you using?

gpt5-codex

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm

What steps can reproduce the bug?

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GPT-5 Codex was working through a large code migration but then failed to resolve linting and TypeScript errors repeatedly. It said the task was too big.

What is the expected behavior?

To work through the issues one by one.

What do you see instead?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_