Codex goes down and programmers flood X with memes about their outage dependency
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-26
OpenAI's Codex coding agent suffered an outage, prompting clairevo's 'pov: codex is down' meme post that resonated widely — a lighthearted look at how dependent developers have become on AI coding tools.
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