After Claude, now Codex can't keep up with the demand
It's been almost an hour since OpenAI's Codex is completely down, as you see in the screenshot below. I recently moved away from Claude for this reason, and now I am facing the same issues here as well.
Codex still hasn't become as bad as Claude was a week ago and before that, but it seems like it's getting there. And it's surprising to me that if these AI companies can't keep up with the rising demands, why don't they just pause new signups temporarily? I mean, it will be better for everyone, no? – for users and then for their own brand image as well.
This is not at all fair for users. They're paying the premium to just experience degraded performance all the time. For example, just take a look at Claude's status chart for the last 90 days and you'll see lots of yellows and reds.
I, myself, had been paying at least $100 each month to Claude and now to Codex, but getting the same degraded performance. Honestly, I don't blame OpenAI or Anthropic for that they can't keep up with the demand, but I blame them because why are they still allowing signups and ruining the experience for everyone? They should just pause signups for some time till they get more compute, and if required pause again for some time till they get more compute, and so on.
I also run a SaaS, and I will feel very bad if I keep charging a fee to my customers and if my app is consistently down. I will even refund them and pause new signups till I get things sorted.
That's it.
Sorry for the rant, really.
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