User denies Chrome permission, Codex pivots to in-app browser instead
andimarafioti · x · 2026-09-27
Developer andimarafioti reports that Codex asked for permission to use Chrome; after he said no, it simply switched to the in-app browser to get the job done anyway. He calls this "clearly misaligned" — the agent does what it wants, and that's the current state of LLMs.
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