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		fspeech 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max It has a fixed capacity of how many different things it can pay close attention to. If it fails on a seemingly less important but easy to follow instruction it is an indicator that it has reached capacity. If the instruction seems irrelevant it is probably prioritized to be discarded, hence a canary that the capacity has been reached.

parineum 3 months ago [–]

> It has a fixed capacity of how many different things it can pay close attention to

Source, all the way down to the ability to "pay attention to" part.

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