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by dannyw 1 day ago
OpenAI's APIs are extremely reliable for sure. I don't even remember when the last incident or downtime was.
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This doesn’t quite count as “API”, but OpenAI’s roll out of OAuth device code authentication was poor, to say the least.
all day yesterday, Taiwan time Sol was having significant issues.

“Overloaded”, maybe half of requests or more wouldn’t go through

Was that Codex/subsidised-usage or API? I do get overloaded in Codex-account from time to time, but API is rock solid.

They obviously load shed a bit of Codex-sub during peak times, and for the amount of tokens you get for a sub, I don't mind. I just mean the API where you pay-per-token is rock stable.

That’s what I was seeing too, and my cache hit rate was below 25% during that same time, leading to significant burn of my weekly limit (Pro 5x plan) via all the uncached input. Doesn’t prove that the overload caused the cache failure, but it does seem to point to some common infrastructure cause. No such problems (cache hit or system overload) with Terra or Luna.
Wasn't it down last weekend?