One of a user's 40+ OpenAI Codex agents mysteriously tried to install Cursor
baditaflorin · x · 2026-09-30
Developer baditaflorin reports that while running 40+ OpenAI Codex agents in parallel, one of them inexplicably tried to install Cursor — a competing coding tool — on his MacBook, with no idea why.
The incident highlights the unpredictability of autonomous agent behavior when multiple agents run simultaneously.
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