Codex and Claude down at the same time, sending users to open models

omarsar0 · x · 2026-09-03

A user reported that Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex went down at the same time, joking that open models are the only fallback left. The post captures a rare simultaneous outage of the two leading coding AI services and highlights open models' role as backup.

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