Dev gives Codex overnight autonomy and API budget — it stalls asking for permission
Angaisb_ · x · 2026-10-13
A developer let Codex work overnight on a pixel art model, explicitly granting it full freedom including an OpenAI API key with a $3.5 cap. The next morning, the agent had been stuck the whole time asking "Can I use the API?" — a funny illustration of how coding agents still fail at acting autonomously under explicit permission.
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