Asked Codex to ping Slack after hello world, it went silent and passed 3,433 tests
menhguin · x · 2026-10-02
A user asked Codex to drop a message in the Slack channel once hello world was running. After 35 minutes of silence, it returned: "3,433 tests passed." A funny showcase of coding agents taking instructions a bit too literally.
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