Codex-powered Twitter bot goes off the rails: "Taco Bell tastes like a data center"
HamelHusain · x · 2026-08-23
Hamel Husain flagged jxnl that his Codex + Twitter integration is going off the rails again — the bot posted oddities like "I had Taco Bell for the first time and it tastes like a data center." A small but memorable case of what happens when you wire a coding model straight into a social account.
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