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Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

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Re: Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

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Post by saberience »

b--l wrote: post #10

Codex is one of the most infamous examples of slopware. Just having the window unhidden on my mac will cause it to use 100% of the GPU displaying the spinner message. THE SPINNER MESSAGE CAUSES 100% GPU USAGE ON AN MBP M5!! So any time you're waiting on the model (which is 90% of the time), your fans will be blasting (careful, don't use it on battery). The issue is on github and close to 6 months old. Probably since…

If you think this about Codex, I'd be curious to hear your opinion on Claude Code.

Claude Code eats RAM on my Macbook Pro like no other app I've experienced, Codex on the other hand seems way more performant, more consistent, less memory usage, less CPU usage etc.

I've read to restart iTerm2 and my Mac several times because of Claude Code weirdness.

Re: Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

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Post by robeym »

I'm on 0.139.0 on Linux and my visible ~/.codex/logs are only about 129 MB.

This makes me even more conservative on upgrading these tools every time they prompt me to. Better to let them get a few miles on them and see how the community responds.

In this case it sounds like 0.142.0 reduced the issue but didn't fully settle it. I'll wait for 0.143.0+ and see if that version is more acceptable.

Re: Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

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Post by yencabulator »

rjh29 wrote: post #236
r_lee wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if we are at 10x with AI and near AGI or ASI, then how is it possible that these products (Codex, Claude Code CLI) are still such garbage? shouldn't this "agentic AI revolution" have long solved this already? no way they're over there saying "we are on it plz wait" or that "it's too much effort"?

Gemini is also buggy as heck and has been buggy for years. For a company of Google's size with "all the power of AI" it's seriously embarrassing.

I sometimes use LLMs as search engine replacements for finding libraries for a specific niches. Gemini is the only one that seems to routinely hallucinate Rust crates from thin air, where otherwise Google is the one most willing to let their LLM peek at a search index to have up-to-date ground facts. It's puzzling. Definitely feels like it's not "organizing the world's information" there.

Re: Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

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Post by MajorLettuce »

Ironically now it seems that the companies that make these companies are the only ones to profit from slop software.

There is no other reason for this to happen other than that the people responsible didn’t take care to check the code they are pushing. Which should be a signal in itself but I suppose it doesn’t matter if it is “good enough.”

Re: Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

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Post by rurban »

layer8 wrote: post #199
troupo wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I beg people to learn what symlinks are. The fact that "put @AGENTS.md in there" is a "common workaround" shows why programmers (good ones at least) are not going anywhere soon.

Symlinks aren’t portable.

Portable to all systems Claude runs on
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