Codex reasoning-token clustering at 516 may be leading to degraded performance

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GPT-5.5CodexAI/MLmodel bugreasoning tokensperformance degradation

Author: 0x_rs

Date: 7/1/2026

Article Summary:
A GitHub issue reporting a potential bug in the GPT-5.5 Codex model, where responses disproportionately cluster at exact fixed values for reasoning tokens, leading to degraded performance on complex tasks.