Users say Codex pets turn themselves back on after every update, invoking Clippy rage
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-30
A user discovered that OpenAI's Codex pets re-enable themselves after every update, even when turned off. He publicly asked OpenAI to stop, invoking the infamous Clippy backlash from Microsoft as a warning against forcing anthropomorphic features on developers.
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