Running Codex on a Pentium turns into an AI-era WTF moment
yacineMTB · x · 2026-07-27
A user reposts a coder’s reaction to running Codex on an old Pentium machine.
The core of the post is the emotional whiplash: seeing a modern coding model working in the background on dated hardware made the user feel like they were watching the whole timeline collapse into one moment. It is essentially an AI-era “WTF” scene rather than a technical update.
Related event: Running Modern AI Codex on a Vintage Pentium Sparks Temporal Shock(2 posts)→
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