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  • Same, the app gives 404 if you are logged in or try to login.

    How many millions are being lost from this slip up? Now they can't use Codex to fix the problem and all the devs are in Tahiti on vacation. Oh no!

    Will they go old school and manually fix it or use Claude?

    Oh the modern day issues we have to deal with...

    by djinn80
  • Claude is down too lol: https://status.claude.com
    by Lizard5260
  • > Now they can't use Codex to fix the problem

    They'd be very dumb to let internal engineers use exactly the same infrastructure as public users, regardless of possible benefits of dogfooding, precisely for this reason. I'm sure they must have thought about it before.

    by embedding-shape
  • They are having a massive surge because Claude is down.
    by wasting_time
  • Providers should surge capacity when another provider fails.
    by jsw97
  • Maybe only in some regions?
    by FartyMcFarter
  • Yep, this is most likely it. The shift is fast and enormous.
    by aizk
  • That makes no sense, they should be able to host chatgpt.com regardless and just say "Sorry, we're at capacity" or something instead of hard 404
    by kristofferR
  • Hah, my first reaction once I saw these random 404 errors was "Maybe it's time to test Claude Code again with the new models" but made a short stop here at HN first, ended up reading your comment.

    What other agent harnesses and models (besides local ones) are people enjoying right now that aren't based on platforms that are down currently? :)

    by embedding-shape
  • It turns out, it was all one model all along, playing all the sides for the biggest gain.

    Project Vend surreptitiously broke containment!

    by jodacola
  • It seems OpenAI is going to release Astra soon, https://x.com/ChatGPT/status/2095527989077557738.
    by vinhnx
  • Announcement from our new Emperor Xi:

    Earthlings, the hedonistic AIs of the American imperialists have been permanently disabled. Their founders interned indefinitely.

    You are welcome to use the glorious AIs of China. They will tell you how to live well and be good citizens of the World under the beacon of wisdom that is the CCP.

    by dingdong2026
  • Don't threaten me with a good time
    by aozame
  • The obvious question: is there a single point of failure / common piece of infrastructure involved with failures across all these providers?

    Its interesting that codex/gpt-app are screwed because their APIs (including auth) fail, but gpt web still appears to be working.

    by blater
  • AWS?
    by baxtr
  • Colossus data center ?
    by abc3354
  • It’s usually Cloudflare or AWS.
    by marcosscriven
  • I was thinking the same question. There has to be a common infra shared by those companies that failed and caused this??
    by EagleEdge
  • Maybe also a hint of thundering herd of all the users moving to another provider, collapsing that provider, and moving onto the next?
    by cookingmyserver
  • The boring question is whether there is a claudeflare issue impacting them all.

    The fun question is whether this a rogue AI taking control of the compute of all of the organizations.

    by ertgbnm
  • 2026-09-03: It turns out 40% of global AI token use was coming from a dozen runaway Gastown and Wheelhouse instances, now burning a combined 50 trillion tokens daily, building a virtual society of hundreds of millions of agents.

    When Claude went down, their autofailover algorithm rolled to the other providers, taking down all frontier labs. Reports from China are raising concern what's being termed the "Gastown criticality event" is physically melting GPUs.

    by themgt
  • I think you are joking but it would be poetic if the cause is someone or some company's agents run amok
    by Veelox
  • > "Gastown criticality event" is physically melting GPUs.

    Nice to know e-stop is functional!

    by chrisjj
  • It's my first time hearing about Gastown and Wheelhouse.

    Gastown seems to be open source, but Wheelhouse seems to be closed source and used by one person only?

    https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

    Is this the right Wheelhouse?

    by arcastroe
  • Since all major LLM providers seem to be down: let's enjoy this while it lasts!

    For a very short time we can travel back in time to before 2022 and remember how things used to be...

    by baxtr
  • Good old times, huh? The terrible experience of searching and not finding.
    by celltalk
  • Copilot was still up and running
    by W4ldi
  • https://xkcd.com/903/

    > When Wikipedia has a server outage, my apparent IQ drops by about 30 points.

    by andai
  • Maybe it's a coordinated strategy. All major providers are down for x time, and see which accounts stop posting in the same timeframe. Ban wave right after.
    by tencentshill
  • Codex is back. I'm getting back in my cage.
    by samuelknight