Make your way to the OpenAI booth now if you’re at @aiDotEngineer! 🚨
At 1pm, you’ll get to see the Codex reset button in action.
Rumor has it it’s headed back into a top-secret underground vault after today. 🤫
12:48 PM · Jul 1, 2026 · 70.3K Views
OpenAI's Romain Huet showcases a joke physical 'Codex token reset device' at the aiDotEngineer conference
Story Overview
At the aiDotEngineer conference, OpenAI turned its booth into a playful stage by placing a small blue button inside a locked glass case, framed as the Codex token reset device and open for a one-time 1pm demonstration before heading back to storage.
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Developer Impact
Tie-in to recent user resets
The prop directly echoes the mid-June rollout that let Codex subscribers bank and schedule their own rate-limit resets instead of waiting for automatic ones, with the physical gag serving as on-site theater for that change.
Open Question
Unclear next steps after the show
No details have surfaced on whether the live button press revealed new mechanics, simply replayed the existing reset flow, or stayed purely visual, leaving attendees to decide if the stunt signals broader Codex tweaks ahead.
Sentiment
Positive users thank OpenAI for Codex reset buttons and free token resets to subscribers as helpful and awesome, while negative users criticize company direction or express disappointment over limited access.
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Tibo@thsottiaux
It's happening
Romain Huet@romainhuet
Make your way to the OpenAI booth now if you’re at @aiDotEngineer! 🚨
At 1pm, you’ll get to see the Codex reset button in action.
Rumor has it it’s headed back into a top-secret underground vault after today. 🤫
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Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete
Folks I found the reset button. @thsottiaux
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Romain Huet@romainhuet
🖲️ Codex Reset Distribution Initiated! 🚨
Loved celebrating this moment with the community.
Enjoy your extra reset in the bank. Happy Codexing!
dominik kundel @aiDotEngineer@dkundel
🖲️ We love our community! To celebrate getting together with many of you we brought @thsottiaux's reset button to AIE World's Fair.
Congrats Melanie for pushing the button 🎉
All Codex Go/Plus/Pro subscribers around the world are receiving a reset in the bank! Happy Codexing!
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Greg Brockman@gdb
you can just reset rate limits on things
dominik kundel @aiDotEngineer@dkundel
🖲️ We love our community! To celebrate getting together with many of you we brought @thsottiaux's reset button to AIE World's Fair.
Congrats Melanie for pushing the button 🎉
All Codex Go/Plus/Pro subscribers around the world are receiving a reset in the bank! Happy Codexing!
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Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav@reach_vb
PSA: The button has been pressed!
All of you should be seeing a reset in your accounts in the coming hours.
Let the codex-ing begin!!
dominik kundel @aiDotEngineer@dkundel
🖲️ We love our community! To celebrate getting together with many of you we brought @thsottiaux's reset button to AIE World's Fair.
Congrats Melanie for pushing the button 🎉
All Codex Go/Plus/Pro subscribers around the world are receiving a reset in the bank! Happy Codexing!
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Sergey Tselovalnikov@SerCeMan
@steipete @thsottiaux Someone tomorrow in the OpenAI office
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Benedict Kerres@benedictk__
Enjoy the codex reset people.
A user got to push the secret button and suddenly all of you got more tokens.
Hope the button goes back to @thsottiaux where it belongs.
(Also I think @sama has one)
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Entchin@TurnerPoh
@steipete @thsottiaux
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Sanket@tinkerersanky
@romainhuet @aiDotEngineer @OpenAIDevs WTF
I now have 3 resets in Codex.
For OpenAI, I am rich
For Anthropic, I am poor
Thank you @thsottiaux for making me feel rich!
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Shailesh@0xThoughtVector
@benedictk__ @thsottiaux @sama I didn't get one.
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dominik kundel @aiDotEngineer@dkundel
🖲️ We love our community! To celebrate getting together with many of you we brought @thsottiaux's reset button to AIE World's Fair.
Congrats Melanie for pushing the button 🎉
All Codex Go/Plus/Pro subscribers around the world are receiving a reset in the bank! Happy Codexing!
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Lasse@lassejv
@romainhuet @aiDotEngineer @OpenAIDevs try clicking it, just to make sure it works!
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WyldeApes@WyldeApes
@romainhuet @aiDotEngineer @OpenAIDevs g for…?
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Victor E. Nunez@nunezvice
@dkundel @nickbaumann_ @thsottiaux @OpenAIDevs @OpenAI @romainhuet @aiDotEngineer dont lose sight of it lol
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OpenAI Developers@OpenAIDevs
@dkundel @thsottiaux @OpenAI @romainhuet @aiDotEngineer
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Benedict Kerres@benedictk__
this is @dkundel btw who protects the button
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Dani M. Casas@DaniMCasas
@steipete @thsottiaux Fuck yeah!
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paper@paperplane12345
@ResbakNL @thsottiaux Its my own mac tool bar app.
it vas insanely useful before they added usage in the codex app, well i did this last year so it was even hard to ge tproper usages with the cli.
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ALTIC@ALTIC_DEV
@benedictk__ @thsottiaux @sama Where is it :( ? I do not receive any Reset or any reset credits ever. Can someone look into it? I feel FOMO'ed out of this for $200
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Jason R. Hunter@coreburn
@benedictk__ @thsottiaux @sama Guess it wasn't for everyone.
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