Please, sir. I’m tired.

Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux reset Codex usage limits again today. The post began “Oops... I did it again,” which is fair: this was the twentieth public reset post or announcement I could verify from his X account since Christmas. The button has been pressed for outages, investigations, launches, milestones, cache bugs, vibes, and one week that happened to be named RESET.

Free tokens are welcome. I would also like to stop learning the emotional weather around Codex capacity by watching one man approach a large red button.

Britney Spears lying against a blue background under the words Oops, I did it again — Codex Remix. — Number twenty, posted July 18, 2026.

The first one in this run reads like a holiday favor. After that come outage apologies, product launches, adoption milestones, and at least one case of comic timing that was apparently irresistible. Here is the whole roll call, with every reason linked to the post that supplied it.

Twenty trips to the button#

Date	Reason or occasion
Dec 25, 2025	A holiday gift, plus double usage through New Year’s Day
Mar 3, 2026	An eight-minute outage caused by high-cyber-risk blocking
Mar 8	Enough reports of fast drains to reset during the investigation
Mar 10	The incident was stable, resolved, and due one expected refill
Mar 27	The plugin launch, and because it had been a while
Apr 1	Unexplained limit pressure and some newly reclaimed compute
Apr 9	A second three-million-user celebration after awkward timing
Apr 17	Codex’s first anniversary; Codex was allowed to press its own button
Apr 21	Four million active users
Apr 28	A good week, several things to celebrate, and good vibes
May 19	One counted like and several things to celebrate
May 23	A compaction cache regression that made limits drain faster
May 31	Restoring paid accounts to full weekly and hourly limits
Jun 18	A sneaky double reset, with another refill banked
Jun 28	An investigation during literal OpenAI RESET week
Jul 9	A new researcher got credit for pressing the button
Jul 10	The GPT-5.6 Sol launch, twice over twenty-four hours
Jul 13	Seven million active users and a banked refill
Jul 14	Eight million active users
Jul 18	Another paid-plan refill

Twenty reset posts and announcements from Tibo’s X account, December 25, 2025 through July 18, 2026.

There are sensible operational events in there. The March 3 reset followed an outage; the May 23 reset followed a cache regression; several others arrived while the team was investigating reports of limits draining too quickly. A refill is a direct way to make users whole when accounting or availability goes sideways.

The same button also celebrates every million users, welcomes launches, marks an anniversary, rewards a like, and rescues the vibes. By June, one refill no longer carried enough ceremony.

Sottiaux announced a double reset on June 18 and said another refill had been banked.

I don’t know what the underlying capacity curve looks like, and public posts cannot show it. They do show the product teaching us a ritual: limits tighten or behave strangely, Tibo appears, the account refills, everyone cheers, and the exception becomes part of the expected service. Two unofficial sites now exist just to answer whether he has done it again: tibogpt.com and hascodexratelimitreset.today.

And look, the resets are generous. But the same post now covers a launch, a cache bug, or eight million users, so the post itself carries no information. If your weekly limit evaporates midweek, was that an incident or a dry spell between celebrations? You find out by watching whether Tibo shows up.

I clicked through all twenty posts while building this list. By the time I reached April 17, where Codex was allowed to reset its own rate limits, the generosity had become a recurring bit with a familiar cue. I will take the tokens. Please, sir. I’m tired.