Developers building on OpenAI's Codex say the platform has been silently dropping its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model to lower effort tiers without notice, forcing them to manually restore the top "Ultra" setting to complete complex work. The behavior surfaced in a widely discussed example involving a 3D character animation pipeline, where the model's capability visibly collapsed each time it defaulted back to Light or Medium effort.
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