A Hacker News discussion points to OpenAI Codex GitHub issue #30364, which reportedly observes reasoning-token counts clustering around 516. The issue author suspects that this concentration may be associated with degraded Codex performance. The supplied metadata indicates 13 Hacker News points and two comments, but does not provide reproduction steps, benchmark results, affected model versions, or evidence establishing causality. The observation therefore remains a product-debugging signal rather than a confirmed explanation of Codex behavior.
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