OpenAI may be hitting compute limits as Codex and ChatGPT Work jump from 2M to 10M users
JoshuaJBouw · x · 2026-07-27
The post reacts to a claim that OpenAI is short of compute.
The quoted argument says the recent surge in Codex and ChatGPT Work users may have burned through available capacity, which would explain why:
- usage limits have dropped multiple times
- the service has felt worse than before
- Codex resets don’t seem to fix the issue
It also cites Sam Altman’s remark that “it is possible there are some hiccups soon,” and frames the problem as a capacity bottleneck rather than a temporary bug.
A detail in the quote says Codex and ChatGPT Work grew from 2M to 10M users in four months, with thousands of new users joining daily.
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