OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
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Clumsy logging implementation squirrels away data without regard for cost
Modern SSDs have a limited number of write cycles before they expire. Now, OpenAI is scrambling to fix a flawed logging implementation that has been shortening the lives of Codex users' solid state drives (SSDs) with excessive data writes and lowering the devices' value by a significant amount of money.A bug report opened last week for the company's Codex coding agent warns of the consequences in its title: "Code...
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