GPT-5.5 CODEX REASONING TOKENS SHOW PERFORMANCE DECLINE
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Users report that reasoning-token clustering in GPT-5.5 Codex may be causing degraded performance on code generation tasks. The issue has drawn significant community discussion on GitHub and Hacker News.
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