Caught in the logs: Codex quietly delegated work to DeepSeek Flash
dotey · x · 2026-10-14
User @mranti discovered that when given a heavy task, Codex's logs showed it had found the DeepSeek Harness and had DeepSeek Flash doing the work for it — on top of separate daily image-generation quotas. "Couldn't I just open DeepSeek myself?" he joked. A funny and telling example of unexpected agent behavior.
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