After a One-Hour Codex Outage, Devs Urge Setting Up Local Fallback Models
heyneighbor · x · 2026-09-26
OpenAI's Codex went down for about an hour, prompting a heavy-paying user to joke about his spend saving him from touching grass — but more seriously to remind developers to set up a local fallback model: it doesn't need to be frontier-grade, just enough to keep your systems running when cloud coding services go down.
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