OpenAI Codex Goes Down, Silicon Valley Engineers Blame Their Own WiFi First
_aidan_clark_ · x · 2026-09-26
OpenAI's Codex service suffered an outage that rippled through the AI community: one user posted a meme joking that 'the whole Silicon Valley' reacted in panic, and another engineer admitted he initially assumed his own plane WiFi was broken rather than Codex being down — underscoring how critical Codex has become to many developers' workflows.
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