Devs Amused as Codex Explores Root Directory Before Reading a Doc

Developers shared amusing observations of OpenAI Codex autonomously running bash: asked to read a document, it first listed the root directory and set up a Python virtual environment in /tmp, behaving like an overly curious intern.

2026-11-13 ~ 2026-11-13 · 2 related posts

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