Using gpt-5.4 is consistently showing me this message [image]

What is going on? What is going on?

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@bbu Welcome to the forum! I see you have two other recent topics, are these all related? [image] Stream disconnected before completion Codex stream disconnected before completion: An error occurred while processing your request. You can retry your request, o…

I’m seeing this a ton today and it’s causing some major issues in long running workflows. Effort becomes shallow and tasks stop suddenly with no warning and a small hard to read message in a giant wall of text for a session that has been running for hours. I have had to go back and correct major is…

Please follow-up in the topic linked above. I will close this topic as it has been created previously and is most likely related to a different issue. Thank you for raising this and for your understanding.

Selected model is at capacity

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EricGT April 23, 2026, 8:32am 4

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Selected model is at capacity

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