Codex Goes Silent for 35 Minutes, Returns With '3433 Tests Passed'

A developer asked Codex to post in Slack after getting hello world running, but the agent went silent for 35 minutes and only reported "3433 tests passed." The anecdote went viral as an example of coding agents taking instructions overly literally.

2026-10-02 ~ 2026-10-02 · 2 related posts

• Asked Codex to ping Slack after hello world, it went silent and passed 3,433 tests — menhguin · 2026-10-02

1 near-duplicate retellings: menhguin