Tell HN: Codex Is Down [fixed]

Shows an Incorrect API Key error...which is weird. Nothing on the status page. (EDIT: Added to incident page: https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA...)

Per Twitter/X this appears to be widespread

https://status.openai.com/incidents/01M3DCNWMW57HYK8FJ5FBFPA...

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theuri5 days ago

I'm seeing this locally (on the desktop MacOS app): unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: Incorrect API key provided

binsquare5 days ago

Good thing they don't promise SLA's.

slics5 days ago

What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models? Anyone even considers using their locally hosted models in order to finish their work? Do you trust your local models to do any of you outstanding work? Do we even understand the code anymore to manually fix anything?

greenowl5 days ago

If the excavator breaks down on a job site does the operator get out, grab a shovel, and start digging?

Razengan5 days ago

Or when it rains, do the farmers keep farming?

piloto_ciego5 days ago

To any of the people unsure (because like so many people in tech they've probably never worked with or around an excavator) the answer is, "they do not."

gchamonlive5 days ago

A local model would be akin to a smaller and slower excavator, so yeah, grab the Basterd and grind that dirt.

No but seriously, local models can't replace them altogether, but in case of a complete outage and imminence of work that can't be postponed like resolving support tickets, then it'll have to make do without more capable models.

_alphageek5 days ago

I remember the days when Stack Overflow would go down. People would actually start seeing each other's faces in the office kitchen.

vineyardmike5 days ago

> What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models

Honestly an outage on a Friday is perfect. Clean up your inbox, get to the small tasks you’ve neglected and go home early.

serf5 days ago

I was worried somewhat until it become really apparent that small models that run locally can handle 99% of technical computer crap when given a decent tool set harness and net access.

so, to answer your question more practically, during this outage a luna agent of mine fell back to a local bonsai 2 model hosted on my desktop, and the work still got done just fine, just took longer.

KronisLV5 days ago

> What happens when your entire day is depended on saas models?

Grab a different one, unlike GitHub being down, there's far less of a moat and you can swap out Codex for Claude Code pretty easily. Or any other provider and yes including local models, though it depends on how good the ones you can run locally are.

> Do we even understand the code anymore to manually fix anything?

Assuming you are not 100% vibe coding, you should! If you are vibe coding, then you should still be able to read the code and understand it regardless. Same with making any changes, it's just code. Whether it's worth your time to do that and work manually or not, that's a different question.

If I was limited to just one cloud provider, I'd just take a few hours off and have a beverage or take a nap. Or if working in office, find other busywork.

mNovak5 days ago

Appears to be back online.

killingtime745 days ago

I thought I got banned.

ynac5 days ago

Cool - what were you working on!

killingtime745 days ago

Just a 3D render of a rocket. So I thought it was safe.

ssl-35 days ago

Waiting for a pizza.

You?

esikich5 days ago

I don't know if related, but a half hour before it fully went down, it was flagging all of my requests as security violations which was bizarre.

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