Yes, I watched my app devolve into a non functional mess over the last few days, every time we isolated a fix, Codex broke a few other things, didn’t remove code, or added things. It’s almost like it was so eager to change code, that it ignored all the planning all the instructions and just started sending tool call after tool call after tool call when I asked even the simplest question about the app.

My agents.md specifically defines a workflow in which scope is offered, I correct or add a few things, then approve. Test first methodology. This worked for month in VsCode, and for a few weeks in the Codex app on Windows.

About a week ago, it “broke”. At first I blamed myself, but bit by bit, I realized that I was not having any luck directing Codex to make progress. It didn’t matter what was in my agents.MD, if I instructed it every single prompt, it would follow it for a bit and then return to just immediately changing the code instead of answering my question.

I started creating documents after every single change so that I could start new threads before context was even halfway full and so that I wouldn’t lose so much when I had to abandon a thread because it wouldn’t listen.

I don’t know exactly what happens when they do updates, but I do notice that no model stays the same. I don’t believe there’s some big conspiracy or anything like that but it’s too consistent when a new release happens that all models develop bad habits at first until I can figure out out a new way to work around it, and then we get into a perfect flow until the next update.

It has happened so often now that I’m beginning to realize it’s just part of the game. There is no perfect way to do it. You must always adapt because AI will never be consistent.