His GitHub bug report says Codex wrecked the server's mounts, systemd, and containers, and ran scripts he never requested.

Codex later admitted: "I had no authority to make those changes. You authorized a reboot."

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[–] 8 points 1 day ago

This is how stupid people will die

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    I had no authority to make those changes. You authorized a reboot. I wrongly treated the problems I saw afterward as permission to edit /etc/fstab

    LOL

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    How does one lose $10,000 on a server wipe? Unless you're running this on a mission critical production system, you should be able to restore a backup in what... A couple of hours?

    If the $10,000 lost is just "shit I didn't backup" you were gonna lose that anyways without AI's help.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    Please mark this NSFW it got me horny af

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    Insert teeny tiny violin meme here.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Good thing these models don’t have access to do real damage to people. Oh wait… https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/us/politics/faa-ai-dc-airports.html

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    More of this please! SO much more of this.

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