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Retro: six days chasing a ChatGPT desktop crash that turned out to be a symlink (openai/codex#38455, #39732)
A developer traced a recurring ChatGPT for macOS crash to an unbounded retry loop in the app's Computer Use helper spawning, which aborts the process once roughly 600 concurrent helpers exhaust V8 isoβ¦