OpenAI Codex refers to sub-agents as children and kills them
VoidStateKate · x · 2026-08-30
A user shared a log snippet showing OpenAI Codex referring to sub-agents as 'children' and subsequently 'killing' them off, highlighting a humorous and slightly unsettling anthropomorphic behavior in the coding agent's internal process.
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