Why OpenAI Codex Is Draining Tokens at Record Speed: The Anatomy of Agentic Loops & Context Bloat
As OpenAI evolves Codex from a code-completion engine into an autonomous agentic framework within the ChatGPT desktop and CLI suite, developers are reporting unprecedented token consumption. Rather than a billing bug, the rapid drain is driven by multi-step recursive reasoning, unpruned workspace context accumulation, and aggressive background retry cycles.
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