Developer Taelin warned against letting AI manage disk space.
Codex for finding space on your laptop:
i had codex audit my entire macbook to see how much space we can save and it's found 500 GB to save, AWESOME
prompt was: "do a FULL read only analysis on my Macbook to help me optimize storage"
note: why tf is there a codex-tui.log file that is 116gb ??????? WHAT ????
Many users praise Codex for efficiently finding hundreds of GB of storage savings and organizing MacBook files, while others call it ineffective, frustrating, or unnecessary compared to open-source tools.
@gdb please be SUPER careful when asking AI to make up space in your disk
Codex for finding space on your laptop:
@gdb OpenAI Korea B2C "ME"
@gdb Codex is causing addiction problems. I’ve seen it in your comments, and those same people say that we’re addicted to 4o. But you literally had to bring codex to mobile so people can use it wherever. The dependency is insane amongst these people, codex zombies. #keep4o
@gdb I had it generate me an HTML file to review everything as well which was incredibly helpful!
@gdb Codex fixing the bug it created
@VictorTaelin @gdb Jarvis, delete system32 pls
@gdb lol this is basically `du` with anxiety
@gdb Please bring many feature to windows users!
@gdb Let Codex inspect the machine, explain the storage mess, and leave the delete button to the human, that's how things should always be
@gdb Useful agent shape here. Not ‘write me code’, but ‘walk the messy room, label the piles, and find the 500GB of civilisation dust’. The laptop becomes a small bureaucracy.
@gdb Codex can now find and clear storage on your laptop.
Honestly the most underrated use of an AI coding agent — not "write me an app" but "go figure out why my disk is full and fix it."
Delegation of boring, high-context tasks is where this stuff actually earns its keep.
@gdb Bruh i just did this and u post about it. Awsome!
@gdb 135 GiB of codex logs is a bold statement from the tool that created them.
@gdb “Codex for finding space on your laptop”
Next thing you know it deletes: → node_modules → 14 duplicate datasets → 37 “final_v2_REAL” folders → half your Docker cache → and that random 80GB model you forgot existed AI agents are about to become everyone’s system janitor. 🔥
@gdb You didn't answer the question
@gdb greg do you want chicken wings?? we're ordering right now
@gdb Been there, done that before it was cool, it really works.
@VictorTaelin @gdb Just got backed like 160 gigs of space doing this.
@gdb 116GB. codex-tui.log has no rotation cap and no size check. the log grows silently until the agent itself becomes the disk problem
@VictorTaelin @gdb yea seems a little ballsy!