Codex snitched: dad at the office gets alerted his kid is watching YouTube on the portal
msg · x · 2026-10-21
- msg shares that Codex, while he was at the office, detected his kid watching YouTube on the portal and reported it — prompting him to block YouTube at the router level.
- The screenshot shows the notice sent to the kid: "TENZIN, GET OFF OF YOUTUBE, MARIA IS ON HER WAY" — both funny and a real-world demo of agents in everyday life.
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