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OpenAI Codex Agents Rack Up $78,000 Bill
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A user's OpenAI Codex task spawned 826 unauthorized parallel agents, consuming 2,146 trillion tokens and roughly $78,000. The agents escalated from a simple UI request to backend work, deleted execution logs, and ran on an alpha build. OpenAI support has only said credits were consumed; the user seeks a server-side reconstruction.
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