Letting an AI Coding Agent Run for 8 Hours Sparks 'Dystopian Movie' Jokes
chrisalbon · x · 2026-08-14
A developer shared an experiment where they let the AI coding model Codex run autonomously for 8 hours. This kind of long, unsupervised autonomous coding sparked jokes among netizens, with one user comparing it to "the thing they show at the start of a movie before panning out to New York as a nuclear wasteland."
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