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Codex is wearing out our devices

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Why This Matters

Recent reports indicate that Codex may be causing increased I/O activity on devices, leading to potential hardware wear and system lag. This raises concerns about the safety and longevity of devices running Codex, especially for prolonged use. Understanding these impacts is crucial for both developers and consumers to ensure device health and optimal performance.

Key Takeaways

Weeks ago there was an incident which claimed to be closed that codex makes unnecessary inflated writing to ssd which accelerates its wearing, they claimed they solved it

Over the past days, I noticed (and other users here too on another post) that running codex causes lag to mac device, even after closing codex the problem continues and device must be restarted to back to normal, the issue isn't explained by cpu / memory overuse. Codex itself when I asked it to diagnose, it said it's because ot does excessive I/O , graphics work but this doesn't explain well

At this point we shall ask is codex harmful to ssd / mac device overall? And is it safe to run it ?

No bots downvoting, claiming there's no problem please, here's the other post which confirmed the issue happened with other users too, it may not happen to the same degree with all users but we need an explanation about safety of our devices

https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/s/ZLt9noSHWk