Codex users report random outages and ~60% of weekly quota burned in a single day

TissueReligion · reddit · 2026-09-16

An OpenAI Codex desktop user reported on Reddit: random failures yesterday — trouble connecting to the backend, overloaded permissions classifier — while status.openai.com showed everything fine. More surprisingly, 60% of his weekly plan usage was consumed on Tuesday alone, despite running similar workloads on Astra for days without ever coming close.

He asked whether others saw the same. Currently an isolated report with no official response; could relate to backend issues or metering problems.

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