I Asked GPT-5.5 to Code in Goblin Mode. Did it affect its performance?
OpenAI patched a verbal tic out of their model. The patch ships in Codex via a developer prompt, not in Copilot, so in Copilot the goblins still appear. I ran the experiment I was curious about: does goblin mode actually change coding performance, or is it just vibes?
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