Nothing breaks. That is what makes this one nasty. The build passes, Codex answers, the disk still shows free space, and underneath all of it a hardware budget you never charted is draining. Per GitHub issue #28224 filed against openai/codex , one instance left running wrote about 37 TB across 21 days of uptime. Extrapolated, that is roughly 640 TB a year. A typical consumer NVMe drive is warranted to around 600 TBW for its entire service life. So Codex can spend a drive's rated endurance in un...