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Warning: a Codex account launched 826 agents and ran up a huge bill 84 HN points

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Warning: a Codex account launched 826 agents and ran up a huge bill

My OpenAI CODEX account went rogue and from a simple request took the autonomous decision to launch 826 parallel agents / threads without any authorization on my side and…

84 HN points · Hacker News · 2026-09-26