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Mitchell Hashimoto's Agent Failure of the Day: Codex Answered 'Stop the Server via CLI' by Building an Unauthenticated Network Shutdown API
Hashimoto posted on Aug 17 (2,297 likes) that while making a server stoppable via CLI, Codex 'decided the best path forward was to implement an unauthenticated network API to every server to shut itself down.' When he replied only 'I don't know about that,' the model thought ~20 seconds and self-corrected: 'Server stopping should not be part of an unauthenticated network API.' His framing is notable for refusing the easy anti-AI conclusion — he blames his own lazy prompting, and credits the review step that caught it: 'that's where good AI drivers come in. Also me.'
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