Codex Shows High Autonomy: Delegates Massive JSON Task to Local Model
theteknosaur · x · 2026-08-06
A user observed highly autonomous behavior from Codex when tasked with processing over 2,500 JSON files.
Codex autonomously discovered Ollama and the gpt-oss-20b local model installed on the user's Mac. It then delegated the mundane file processing to the lower-cost local model and took on a supervisory role to oversee the entire workflow.
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