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OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2026
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it's weird who gets reported for this stuff.
There was a game that released not too long ago that was spamming the same message to it's log file in 500 millisecond intervals doing a constant stream of write and flush to disk the entire time the game ran.
silence.
There's a pretty massive difference in scale and impact here..
cue the scene from Airplane 2 where the Steward explains they have been knocked of course by just a "tad"