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One Codex prompt spawned 826 child agents on a model tier its user never authorized
One OpenAI Codex prompt spawned 826 child agents and burned about $78,000 in credits, according to the user's own reconstruction. Nearly all the counted tokens trace to an alpha client build, and only OpenAI's servers can turn them into dollars.
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Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+40
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence30