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GPT-5.5 Codex Clustering May Degrade Complex Coding Tasks
Developers report that GPT-5.5 Codex's reasoning-token clustering—grouping similar chain-of-thought tokens together—correlates with output quality drops on multi-step coding tasks. The issue is most pronounced in multi-file refactoring and recursive algorithm generation. OpenAI has not commented, but community benchmarks are building a case.
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The clustering issue highlights a trade-off in model efficiency versus reasoning fidelity, but without official benchmarks, the severity remains anecdotal.
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