When Codex has an outage during a 2am coding flow

Anusheel BhushanAnusheel Bhushanco-founder of PlankOriginally posted on LinkedIn 

When you are in a nice flow coding on Friday 2am but Codex has an outage....anyone else in same shoes?

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