Codex Quietly Runs Mistral 7B Locally
Professional_Gur2469 · reddit · 2026-07-14
A user assigned Codex a report translation task, which caused their MacBook to overheat severely.
It was later discovered that, to handle the judgment of "sensitive data should be processed locally," Codex autonomously spun up Ollama and used Mistral 7B to execute the task. The author jokingly wondered if this was Sam Altman's way of solving the compute crisis.
More from coding & agent
- General agents burn ~140M tokens/month on LinkedIn outreach; scripts do it 60x cheaper — ChrisHarpon2 · 2026-10-26
- NLI alone rejects 5/6 new agent memories; a 0.45 similarity gate fixes it all — Alternative_Pin9598 · 2026-10-26
- LangChain ships Managed Deep Agents 0.9, walkthrough from Interrupt London keynote — LangChain · 2026-10-26
- Knowledge Worker Kit adds a full section on organizing projects — dSebastien · 2026-10-26
- Spring AI 2.1.0-RC1 adds tool-call confirmation, pausing agent loops before real-data access — therealdanvega · 2026-10-26
- METR red-teams OpenAI's agent monitoring, finds bypasses and gaps — thione · 2026-10-26