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Kinda Funny... Coding Agent Follows Instructions Meant for the Agent it's Coding

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My coding agent started giving me this immediate explicit "objective and summary" every time I hit enter and I thought, "oh they must have adjusted Codex behavior that's weird." Then I realized no it's reading the instructions meant for the agent it's coding thinking they're for it. submitted by /u…

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  1. 2026-09-04 12:51 · r/AI_Agents
    Kinda Funny... Coding Agent Follows Instructions Meant for the Agent it's Coding

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