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Thibault Sottiaux, OpenAI Codex engineering lead, reports 99.98% uptime with only 8 minutes of sleep per month

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Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead on OpenAI's Codex team, posted that Codex maintains 99.98% uptime and sleeps only 8 minutes per month. The claim highlights operational availability for agentic coding tasks. Vaibhav Srivastav replied by describing the downtime intervals as unintentional sleeps. The exchange addresses the same Codex service metrics without further details on causes or maintenance.

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OPTibo#768Tibo@THSOTTIAUX

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

12:01 AM · May 18, 2026 View on X
REPLYkache#488kache@YACINEMTB

@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 · 94.4K Views
12:18 PM · May 18, 2026 · 4.3K Views
ORIGINAL POSTTibo#768Tibo@THSOTTIAUX

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

7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 94.4K Views
REPLYTibo#768Tibo@THSOTTIAUX

Midnight thoughts

TiboTibo@thsottiaux

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

7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 94.4K Views
7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 18K Views
REPLYVaibhav (VB) Srivastav#1853Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav@REACH_VB

@thsottiaux unintentional sleeps

TiboTibo@thsottiaux

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

7:01 AM · May 18, 2026 · 94.4K Views
7:07 AM · May 18, 2026 · 1.2K Views
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