Why OpenAI's 'goblin' problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own

AI is more than a technology — it's magic. Don't believe me? Why, then, is one of the leading companies in the space, OpenAI, publishing entire official, corporate blog posts about goblins ? To understand, we first have to go back to earlier this week, on Monday, April 27, 2026, when a developer under the handle @arb8020 on the social network X posted a snippet from the OpenAI open source Codex GitHub repository , specifically a file named models.json . Deep within the instructions for