Sequential sampling from conditional multivariate normal - gaussian-process

Question

I'm trying to sequentially sample from a Gaussian Process prior.
The problem is that the samples eventually converge to zero or diverge to infinity.
I'm using the basic conditionals described e.g. here
Note: the kernel(X,X) function returns the squared exponential kernel with isometric noise.
Here is my code:
n = 32
x_grid = np.linspace(-5,5,n)
x_all = []
y_all = []
for x in x_grid:
x_all = [x] + x_all
X = np.array(x_all).reshape(-1, 1)
# Mean and covariance of the prior
mu = np.zeros((X.shape), np.float)
cov = kernel(X, X)
if len(mu)==1: # first sample is not conditional
y = np.random.randn()*cov + mu
else:
# condition on all previous samples
u1 = mu[0]
u2 = mu[1:]
y2 = np.atleast_2d(np.array(y_all)).T
C11 = cov[:1,:1] # dependent sample
C12 = np.atleast_2d(cov[0,1:])
C21 = np.atleast_2d(cov[1:,0]).T
C22 = np.atleast_2d(cov[1:, 1:])
C22_ = la.inv(C22)
u = u1 + np.dot(C12, np.dot(C22_, (y2 - u2)))
C22_xC21 = np.dot(C22_, C21)
C_minus = np.dot(C12, C22_xC21) # this weirdly becomes larger than C!
C = C11 - C_minus
y = u + np.random.randn()*C
y_all = [y.flatten()[0]] + y_all
Here's an example with 32 samples, where it collapses:
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Here's an example with 34 samples, where it explodes:
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(for this particular kernel, 34 is the number of samples at which (or more) the samples start to diverge.