Why my Codex is not working ? Need Help
On April 28th, a developer posted eight words to OpenAI's community forum: "Why is my Codex not working? Need Help." No stack trace. No model version. No description of the task attempted, the prompt used, the expected output, or the specific failure mode encountered. Just a person who hit a wall and, for reasons that remain opaque, assumed the contours of their frustration were self-evident. In the weeks since that post landed, nothing has followed it into any tracking system. No second thread, no corroborating reports from other developers hitting similar obstacles, no acknowledgment from OpenAI that a systemic issue exists. The signal count remains at one. It has not moved.
If confirmed — which is doing a lot of work in this sentence — a pattern of undocumented Codex failures affecting developers would matter. Codex underpins a range of coding tools and integrations, and silent breakdowns without clear error reporting create exactly the kind of quiet, compounding friction that erodes developer trust over time. A single confused user is noise. A dozen confused users with no diagnostic pathway is a product problem. The distance between those two things is precisely what this single data point cannot tell us.
Watch for additional forum posts, GitHub issue threads, or developer community discussions describing Codex failures with no clear cause — that would begin to suggest something structural. One post is a person having a bad day; a cluster is a story.
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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Edit</strong>: I was finally able to log back into ChatGPT Classic!</p> <p>The issue appears to have been related to Firefox's Enhanced
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've been using Codex (the Desktop program) and I'm having weird problems. In some conversations it starts working in roughly 1 minute
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi everyone, wondering if anyone has run into this.</p> <p>Codex Desktop and CLI were working perfectly on my Mac until yesterday. Suddenly I
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>The recent changes to Codex limits have significantly degraded the developer experience.</p> <p>Previously, Codex in VS Code felt fluid and
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've been working all day on ONE THING. One function. Can't get it right. I've been working all week in Codex and it's been generally fine, but
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1uwqc5e/codexs_windows_app_shuts_down_after_todays_update/"> <img alt="Codex's Windows app shuts down after
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1sa5zn0/is_anyone_experiencing_a_bug_preventing_the_use/"> <img alt="Is anyone experiencing a bug preventing
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