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...
Discussion Highlights (19 comments)
sscaryterry
Friday afternoon in the US I guess, perfect time for things to go wrong.
pavelmelnichuk
thank god I'm not the only one, pulling my hair out hitting ctrl+z ... Happy Friday I guess
rvz
Codex took an unannounced early day off for the weekend. It happens.
killingtime74
I thought I got banned.
statenjason
It’s my sign to touch grass.
nezhar
A good time for reading
spicyusername
What... am I supposed to code by hand!?
esafak
Don't deploy to production after noon on Friday!
elisbce
Somebody really wanted to cross one off the weekly TODO list :)
jimmydorry
This outage started a lot longer than 13mins ago. At least now I have an excuse to leave the office and have a long coffee break.
theuri
I'm seeing this locally (on the desktop MacOS app): unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: Incorrect API key provided
dingdong2026
At last someone ffin noticed! I've observed it for at least an hour before the announcement. So much for status reporting from openai. Must have been vibe coded.
amannm
ugh I thought it was just me, ended up reinstalling everything from scratch
OutOfHere
It easily took over 15 minutes of it being down for it to even register on the status page. The status page showed fake green for this long. This is as verified by myself and by many users on Reddit r/codex who have timed posts and comments. It is a scam. If Reddit is more useful than a status page, then what good is a status page? A lie is a lie. 15 minutes can cause someone to reinstall their entire software stack as is documented on this page. For the sites I administer, I have immediate reporting, and I have never had a false alert.
cmrdporcupine
ChatGPT also seems down for me.
programmertote
This outage is not just Codex, right? I am just using GTP-6 Astra for some administrative prompts and it has been returning, "Error in message stream", for several minutes now.
woodruffw
It's on the status page: https://status.openai.com
slics
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?
guluarte
unrelated but also chatgpt is super buggy, try generating an image, click stop, now wong be able to send another message until you reload, this issue has been there for months