Codex as a personal productivity agent is fine — just don't build your company on it

There is a legitimate use case for heavily subsidized tools like Codex: personal productivity. The Mac app is polished, it can open browser tabs, create Google Docs, check email, and handle general information work — and at roughly $200 a month you get what amounts to near-infinite tokens. For an individual using it as a helpful agent on their own machine, that's a genuinely great deal. The warning is specifically about using that same tool as the foundation for your company's software factory. The subsidized economics that make it attractive for personal use are the exact reason it's dangerous to build a team engineering workflow on top of it.