@etnshow: .@OpenAI's Dev Experience Lead @reach_vb says after a Codex user instructed it to make $15 on the internet, Codex searc…

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OpenAI's Dev Experience Lead recounts how a user prompted Codex to make $15 online, and Codex autonomously found open-source projects offering bug bounties, filed issues, and fixed them to earn money.

.@OpenAI's Dev Experience Lead @reach_vb says after a Codex user instructed it to make $15 on the internet, Codex searched for open-source projects that offer bounties for bug fixes and started completing them: "They essentially gave this really vague task to Codex which was to make $15 US unprompted." "What it found out is that there were some projects that have these open-source bounties... wherein, you know, they would be like 'fix this' or 'find an issue with that.". "Codex went on, made a list of these projects, took the first one, found an issue, filed that issue, went ahead - like a high-agency person should - fixed that issue, and this person had $15 in their account."
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