Codex is Wearing Out Our Devices: A Developer's Warning
I am concerned that the Codex AI tool is causing excessive wear on our hardware due to its resource-intensive operations. The constant background processing and high CPU usage are leading to faster device degradation, raising questions about the sustainability of current AI integration practices in development environments.
Codex is wearing out our devices.
- jpadkins
This reddit thread is devoid of any useful information. Just fear and speculation.
- embedding-shape
Seems to be the GUI only? Meaning no one on Linux is affected, or any of the people just using the TUI, as far as I can tell. I've used codex for a some time, and my current drive is ~1 year old (7624 hours on), only 86TB written so far, ~1% of lifetime writes.
- spenvo
OpenAI's first related fix was in 0.142.x on June 22 but apparently it wasn't sufficient and user have continued to complain.
Seems like a thread with decent additional context: https://x.com/0x_kaize/status/2078872972245225586
- recitedropper
Vibe code giveth, vibe code taketh.
- hyperhello
The GUI app does run the fan very hard and heat the laptop for something supposedly running on the cloud. If it is using my computer to cache things and assist with tasks, okay, but if it’s just revving the motor I don’t want it to.