ChatGPT and Codex Suffer Widespread Outage
OpenAI's ChatGPT and its Codex coding tool experienced an outage that left users locked out or facing errors, according to a Hacker News post that quickly gathered dozens of upvotes and comments. Details on the exact cause weren't immediately available, but the timing suggests a shared backend issue affecting both products rather than two unrelated failures.
Outages like this aren't rare for major AI providers, but they sting more now that so many developers have woven Codex and ChatGPT into daily workflows - from writing code to answering support tickets. When the service goes dark, so does a chunk of dependent tooling.
OpenAI has not yet published a detailed postmortem, and Hacker News commenters speculated about everything from rate-limiting issues to infrastructure changes tied to recent feature rollouts.