Lukasz Olejnik
OpenAI shipped a telemetry system that logs more than the actual work being done. Codex burning through SSDs at a rate of ~640 TB/year – one user hit 37 TB written in 21 days. On a consumer SSD
that’s full drive death in under a year. https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224
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Show threadElias Probst2d ago
@LukaszOlejnik all this AI bullshit was the hardware vendors' secret plan to boost their sales, now that in recent years most hardware was sufficiently capable for most tasks and didn't need constant upgrading anymore...
Show threadstfn2d ago
@LukaszOlejnik 21 days, 37TB, now we know who is the culprit
Show threadOmnivore2d ago

@LukaszOlejnik

#alttext

Closed
Codex SQLite feedbac...
#28224
Issue
Codex is continuously writing a large amount of data to the local SQLite feedback log database:
~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite
~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-wal
~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite-shm
On my machine, after about 21 days of uptime, the main SSD has written about 37 TB. Process/file-level checks show Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer.
That extrapolates to roughly 640 TB/year. On a 1 TB SSD, that is about 640 full-drive writes per year. Some consumer SSDs are rated around 600 TBW, so this could consume roughly a full drive's warranted write endurance in less than a year.

Show threadG0rb 2d ago
@LukaszOlejnik it's okay, chips are cheap /s
Show threadCloudmom Colette2d ago

@LukaszOlejnik this is a goldmine

apparently it will just start deleting files to find more space

Show threadRalfMaximus2d ago

@electrocutie @LukaszOlejnik

In many places it's illegal to delete or alter files without express permission of the user. Lookup "Computer Crimes Act" for any given jurisdiction.

Show threadStarkRG2d ago
@electrocutie @LukaszOlejnik I've heard so many people complain about the lax computer security in Star Trek, but here we already have people giving an inherently unpredictable algorithm permission to delete arbitrary files.
Show threadyuki - queen of the snow2d ago
@LukaszOlejnik i tried reading this issue thread. it's horrendous, everyone's sharing 5 paragraphs of the same information over and over and over and over... i've never seen that many duplicate bugs on an issue opened not even a day ago! the amount of outright spam some AI users are willing to produce is scarringly impressive
Show threadFediThing 1d ago

@LukaszOlejnik

AI corporations are causing destructive externalities on the assumption that they can bribe anyone who tries to hold them responsible 😞

Show threadmarkus23h ago
@LukaszOlejnik and this is why ssds are so cheap right now.
Show threadStijn van Drongelen22h ago
@LukaszOlejnik Good.
Show threadtizilogic8h ago
@LukaszOlejnik I remember people telling me "bUt SToRaGE iS cHEaP" not too long ago, when I complained about software doing excessive disk writes...
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