DON’T ASK US ABOUT:
rocks
troll’s with sticks
All sorts of dragons
Mrs. Cake
Huje green things with teeth
Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
Rains of spaniel’s.
fog.
Mrs. Cake
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116489789450590783
carnage4life@mas.to - The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI includes instructions never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless asked by the user.
Some say this is because GPT-5.5 has been known to ramble on about creatures unprompted. 😬
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/
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