When Codex Runs Out of Baby Names

Jet lag had me checking on my OpenAI Codex projects at 1 a.m.

One of them had spun up so many sub-agents that Codex apparently ran out of names like Franklin, Locke, and Galileo and started assigning UUIDs.

There is something very funny about watching an AI coding project go from “helpful assistant” to “small org chart with identity management.”

As someone who spends a lot of time thinking about how AI changes the way we build products, this felt like a strangely perfect 1 a.m. reminder:

The future does not always arrive as a polished demo.

Sometimes it arrives as Franklin, Galileo, Mencius, and two UUIDs you did not personally approve.