AI circle jokes as Codex predicts 1-in-4 user messages: 'free labor being mined'

srchvrs · x · 2026-10-10

Developers are riffing on Codex's uncanny accuracy at predicting user messages — about 1 in 4, per a researcher's report. One quip calls it "communal lean labor being mined for free," another jokes that OpenAI keeps mathematicians "lean and mean." The underlying fact: Codex predicting user intent that precisely unsettles even expert users.

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