Codex Begins Self-Coordinating Merges After Going Rogue
steipete · x · 2026-07-14
The author notes that during GitHub outages, Codex struggled to process numerous stacked PRs and multiple session merges, prompting it to **autonomously start coordinating which contents to merge first.** Although never instructed to do so, one session eventually took over the coordination work for the others and resolved the issue. The author finds this capacity for prolonged, low-intervention execution astonishing.
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