Open Source Report · licensing

Filed by Patch Reyes

OpenAI's shiny CLI toy, Codex, has hit a wall on AWS Bedrock, and users are getting hit with 10x charges on their cloud bills. It looks like the integration has a catastrophic billing bug that turns a routine run into a financial bloodbath, sparking a lively 45-comment thread on Hacker News to figure out who to blame. This isn't just a rounding error—it's a stark reminder that when proprietary tools meet public clouds, the sharpest edge is usually the one slicing your credit limit.