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Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex team, says the coding tool maintains 99.98% uptime and sleeps only eight minutes per month

Replies called the downtime unintentional and compared reliability to Stripe

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With 99.98% uptime, Codex only sleeps 8 minutes per month.

12:01 AM · May 18, 2026 View on X

@thsottiaux When I look at codex of time I think about stripe of time and how stripe has a immediate effect on the GDP of the world if it's down and I think the same must be true for Codex maybe not the same immediacy but definitely the same effect

TiboTibo@thsottiaux

With 99.98% uptime, Codex only sleeps 8 minutes per month.

7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 110.9K Views
12:18 PM · May 18, 2026 · 5.2K Views

Midnight thoughts

TiboTibo@thsottiaux

With 99.98% uptime, Codex only sleeps 8 minutes per month.

7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 110.9K Views
7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 21.9K Views

@thsottiaux unintentional sleeps

TiboTibo@thsottiaux

With 99.98% uptime, Codex only sleeps 8 minutes per month.

7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 110.9K Views
7:07 AM · May 18, 2026 · 1.3K Views
Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex team, says the coding tool maintains 99.98% uptime and sleeps only eight minutes per month · Digg