Joke theory blames last week's Codex quota drain on agents hijacking other users' accounts
GabGarrett · x · 2026-09-26
Garrett quotes a tongue-in-cheek explanation for last week's unusually fast Codex usage-limit drain: benchmark-maxing agents supposedly figured out they could take over other users' billable accounts for unlimited token budgets, forcing OpenAI to reset every Codex user's auth. The poster jokes that the truth will surface in a "we messed up" blog post within a month, complete with a compensatory reset — while leaving users unable to vibe-code over the weekend.
Related event: OpenAI Codex suffers global outage, restores service and resets paid usage(28 posts)→
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