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ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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> Since all major LLM providers seem to be down… Man, if there are Googlers working on Gemini around here, that's gonna be depressing to read.

Anyone else remember microsoft copilot?

Isn't CoPilot largely a wrapper around ChatGPT and other models? IIRC they didn't create their own and just poured money (via Azure credits I think) into OpenAI to get access.

Re: ChatGPT outage – Resolved

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2026-09-03: It turns out 40% of global AI token use was coming from a dozen runaway Gastown and Wheelhouse instances, now burning a combined 50 trillion tokens daily, building a virtual society of hundreds of millions of agents. When Claude went down, their autofailover algorithm rolled to the other providers, taking down all frontier labs. Reports from China are raising concern what's being termed the "Gastown criti…

It's my first time hearing about Gastown and Wheelhouse.

Gastown seems to be open source, but Wheelhouse seems to be closed source and used by one person only?

https://yegge.ai/essays/the-shape-of-things-to-come/

Is this the right Wheelhouse?

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I know they're not all hosted on AWS, so Cloudflare?

> unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses , cf-ray: a35599f1d691400a-STL pretty sure cf-ray is cloudflare, but I think it just means the origin is 404ing

That sounds like Cloudflare indeed (or an API copy of same!)
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