Tell HN: Codex Is Down

I'm seeing an Incorrect API Key error when trying to use Codex, which is strange. There's nothing on the status page, but per Twitter/X this appears to be widespread.

  1. theuri

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

  2. 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?

  3. mNovak

    Appears to be back online.

  4. esikich

    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.

  5. killingtime74

    I thought I got banned.

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