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Since version 0.157, Codex CLI's behavior includes: launching a persistent daemon on startup and re-parenting it to PID 1, copying a 374 MB binary into a hidden directory, and spawning a detached hourly-scale update loop; the stop command only stops the service, and the updater remains alive.
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Confidence
Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
10/17/2026
First Seen
Valid until: 1/15/2027
Sources
The AI Coding Flood: Anthropic Merges 30,000 Times a Day, and Engineers' Core Job Is Saying 'No'
youtubeBlue Screen Planet10/15/2026
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