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title: "OpenAI Codex — AI hype score and trend · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
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# OpenAI Codex (🤖 Agents)

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OpenAI Codex is 💤 Quiet on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: a hype score of 0 out of 100 on Sep 27, 2026, 4 points lower than 7 days before. Its attention is within the normal range across the monitored sources. Its last hype episode in the 30-day window ran from Sep 23 to Sep 23 (peak 26 on Sep 23).

Codex, OpenAI's coding agent (app, CLI, and IDE extension).

First seen on Google News (RSS) · Sep 13 — the first monitored source to go above normal for it in the last 14 days.

Why this stage: within the normal range across monitored sources.

- **Stage:** 💤 Quiet — within the normal range across the monitored sources
- **Hype score:** 0.2 / 100 · −3.9 in 1 day · −4.4 in 7 days
- **In hype since:** not in hype now
- **Peak, 30 days:** 53.4 on Sep 9, 2026
- **Category:** 🤖 Agents
- **Made by:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md)
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Official site:** [openai.com](https://openai.com)
- **Sources above normal:** 0 of 28 scoring it (0 independent families)
- **Stories in 7 days:** 1,693
- **Share of voice:** 3% of the radar’s attention in 7 days

## Where the attention comes from

“Normal” is the median of the source’s previous 14 normal days for this topic. A source is above normal when its value is at least 30% over that level and stands out from its usual day-to-day variation (z ≥ 2); the share is the part of the hype score that source explains. “× normal” is left blank when the normal level is 0.

| Source | Metric | Latest | Normal | × normal | Above normal | Share of score |
|---|---|---:|---:|---:|---|---:|
| Wikipedia | pageviews | 380 | 374 | 1× | no | 100% |
| Bluesky | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| GitHub Trending | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Google Trends (Trending now) | trending | 0 (Sep 26) | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Hugging Face Daily Papers | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) | frontpage hours | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Lobste.rs | items | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |
| Manifold Markets | new markets | 0 | 0 | — | no | 0% |

## Stories behind it

1. [My vibe-coded photoshop just crossed 20k users](https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1wpaies/) — Reddit (r/vibecoding) · Sep 24 · score 2,207 · 652 comments
2. [sergebulaev/linkedin-skills: Claude skills for LinkedIn. 11 Claude Code and Codex skills that write human-sounding LinkedIn posts, craft comments that get noticed, analyze your feed, and build a publishing cadence, all from your terminal. Content engineering by Creative Content Crafts. MIT.](https://github.com/sergebulaev/linkedin-skills) — GitHub Trending (sergebulaev) · score 3,252
3. [yetone/magpie: Every agent's model. One place. Codex on DeepSeek, Claude Code on Kimi, from the menu bar.](https://github.com/yetone/magpie) — GitHub (yetone) · Sep 23 · score 1,576
4. [Tell HN: Codex Is Down \[fixed\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851032) — Hacker News · Sep 25 · score 65 · 73 comments
5. [Tell HN: Codex Is Down \[fixed\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49851032) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) · Sep 25 · score 65 · 71 comments
6. [Codex is down, confirmed by OpenAI](https://community.openai.com/t/codex-is-down-confirmed-by-openai/1400811) — Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) (OpenAI Developer Community) · Sep 25 · score 76 · 12 comments
7. [Back to Claude](https://www.bensbites.com/p/back-to-claude) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Ben's Bites) · Sep 24 · score 81 · 0 comments
8. [Your SKILL.md Was Valid. Codex Ran Out of File Descriptors](https://dev.to/hexisteme/your-skillmd-was-valid-codex-ran-out-of-file-descriptors-ln4) — DEV Community (dev.to) (#debugging) · Sep 26 · score 2 · 4 comments
9. [Claude Code, Cursor and Codex start every session from zero. A 2-minute demo of a local index and memory they share, on your machine.#ai #mcp #productivity #devtools #software #coding #development #e…](https://www.urbanmind.net/display/f7dd981d-a12a350c-03f7e2d6d6e78dd6) — Mastodon (fediverse) (www.urbanmind.net) · Sep 25 · score 4 · 0 comments
10. [Software Firms Discount AI to Keep Customers From Anthropic, OpenAI](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/software-firms-discount-ai-keep-customers-anthropic-openai) — Tech press (RSS) (The Information) · Sep 22
11. [Build Like a Frontier Lab Engineer with OpenAI, Cognition, Qodo, Auth0, Temporal](https://luma.com/ai-agentic-coding) — Luma (SF AI events) (Bond AI - San Francisco and Bay Area) · score 0
12. [Houston we have a problem: Opus 5.5](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wqd0gg/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 26 · score 1,157 · 369 comments

## Themes

What its stories of the last 7 days are about: the 1,224 of them the Jev model kept as about the scene, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 68% of its stories
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 37% of its stories
- [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 28% of its stories
- [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 23% of its stories
- [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 11% of its stories
- [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 5.6% of its stories

## Related topics

- **Related to:** [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md), [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md), [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md)
- **Competes with:** [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md), [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md), [GitHub Copilot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/github_copilot.md), [Grok Build](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_build.md)
- **Made by:** [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md)
- **Part of:** [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md)
- **Mentioned with:** [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) (1,295 stories), [GPT-5.6 Sol - Terra - Luna](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt56.md) (96 stories), [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md) (58 stories), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md) (56 stories), [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md) (38 stories), [Browser Use - browser agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/browser_use.md) (12 stories)

## Hype score, last 30 days

| Day | Hype score | Stage |
|---|---:|---|
| Sep 27, 2026 | 0.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 4.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 9.7 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 4.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 25.7 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 14.6 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 19.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 4.6 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 0 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 12.3 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 10.4 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 27.7 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 29.1 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 29.3 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 23.3 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 23.7 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 22.5 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 44.7 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 53.4 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 40.9 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 16.4 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 13.8 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 18 | 🧊 Cooling |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 29.7 | 🔥 Hot |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 34.2 | 🚀 Rising |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 22.1 | 💤 Quiet |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 22.3 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 22.9 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 0.2 | 💤 Quiet |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 0.3 | 💤 Quiet |

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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