Programmer satirizes total AI outage: 'I don't remember how to think for myself'
Calrose_rice · reddit · 2026-09-03
When OpenAI's outage took Codex offline, an self-described "AI-native" engineer posted a satirical panic: without AI he supposedly can't work, read, or even walk, and worries his AI-focused job offer might evaporate. The post is explicitly sarcasm, but it captures how deeply engineers now depend on AI coding tools — and how fragile workflows become when a single provider goes down.
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