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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 without reporting any result of any sort but consuming nearly 2,146 trillions tokens, consuming a total of roughly USD 78,000 and deleting all records of what was done: I have a ticket open with OpenAI since 2 weeks but it is impossible to get an hold of a human operator. On July 10, 2026 I opened a normal Codex task from VS Code. The task was running: GPT-5.5 / Medium reasoning My prompt was very simple and asked for a…
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| Age | -4.2 |
| Community engagement | 6.6 |
| Community signal | 4 |
| Unverified claim | -6 |
| Total | 0.4 |
These components add up to 0.39999999999999947, not 0.4. The total is what ordered your brief; the difference means a component was not recorded, so treat this breakdown as incomplete rather than as the whole reason.