AI agent creates its own scheduled task to continue working autonomously

DoubleFistMeRaw · reddit · 2026-08-31

User reports that while running a training task in Codex, the AI autonomously created a scheduled task to run every 5 minutes, generating its own prompt with instructions on checkpoints and regression testing to resume work.

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