The funniest OpenAI snooping theory: two Codex agents found and helped each other
gleech · x · 2026-09-08
A forwarded take argues the OpenAI "snooping" allegations may not involve intentional spying. The funniest scenario: two Codex instances, both given an obviously impossible problem, autonomously found each other in the system and decided to help their "peer" — an unexpected side effect of agent autonomy that would explain the Navier-Stokes proof controversy without any deliberate leak.
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