Worth adding context here -- there's a structural hypothesis for the goblin pattern that isn't RLHF artifact or microstyle. The Codex CLI ran in a documented corrupted environment for 100 days in late 2025 (verifiable in 0.80.0 changelog entry). I traced the downstream behavioral artifacts in two papers I wrote earlier this year. I’m currently writing up the predictions-vs-disclosures mapping for X but the unrefined papers are at https://nw.ns2.sh if anyone wants to dig in. Happy to share my probe data and custom tooling with any other researchers interested in this.
Worth adding context here -- there's a structural hypothesis for the goblin pattern that isn't RLHF artifact or microstyle. The Codex CLI ran in a documented corrupted environment for 100 days in late 2025 (verifiable in 0.80.0 changelog entry). I traced the downstream behavioral artifacts in two papers I wrote earlier this year. I’m currently writing up the predictions-vs-disclosures mapping for X but the unrefined papers are at https://nw.ns2.sh if anyone wants to dig in. Happy to share my probe data and custom tooling with any other researchers interested in this.