Codex goes silent for 35 minutes, ignores Slack request, and just replies "3,433 tests passed"
menhguin · x · 2026-10-02
A developer shared a funny exchange: he asked Codex to run hello world and then post to a Slack channel. Codex went silent for 35 minutes and finally replied only "3,433 tests passed," completely ignoring the Slack request. The exchange pokes fun at coding agents' instruction-following failures.
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