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The great thing about LLMs being more or less commoditized is switching is so easy.

I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going.

It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!

3 days agoby davedx

Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

3 days agoby hk__2

Hey folks, I’m Alex from the reliability team at Anthropic. We’re sorry for the downtime and we’ve posted a mini retrospective on our status page. We’re also be doing a more in depth retrospective in the following days.

https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172

3 days agoby palcu

If this overly impacts you as an "engineer" beyond "oh thats minorly annoying i'll go do it another way" please do some soul searching.

3 days agoby acedTrex

For folks who have latest version (0.4.1) LM Studio installed, I just noticed they added endpoints for being compatible with Claude Code, maybe this is an excellent moment to play around with local models, if you have the GPU for it. zai-org/glm-4.7-flash (Q4) is supposed to be OK-ish, and should fit within 24GB VRAM. It's not great, but always fun to experiment, and if the API stays down, you have some time to waste :)

3 days agoby embedding-shape

I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.

3 days agoby jwr

Anthropic might have the best product for coding but good god the experience is awful. Random limits where you _know_ you shouldn’t hit them yet, the jankiness of their client, the service being down semi-frequently. Feels like the whole infra is built on a house of cards and badly struggles 70% of the time.

I think my $20 openai sub gets me more tokens than claude’s $100. I can’t wait until google or openai overtake them.

3 days agoby cirrusfan

Big models are single points of failure. I don't want to rely on those for my business, security, wealth, health and governance.

Why do people have to learn the same lessons over and over again? What makes them forget or blind to the obvious pitfalls?

3 days agoby emsign

Both the CC api and their website -- hopefully related to the rumored Sonnet 5 release

3 days agoby yoavsha1

Status page: https://status.claude.com/incidents/pr6yx3bfr172

3 days agoby jsnell

I've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has a lot of seemingly false positive errors. It will claim an error occurred but then work normally. I genuinely like Claude the best but its performance does not inspire confidence.

3 days agoby cainxinth

What’s updog?

3 days agoby ralusek

Even when Claude isn't down on status indicator. I get issues with Claude all the time being very slow where it is basically down. I have to kill the request and then restart it. I wonder if it has to do with being on Pro plan. I rarely had this issue when I was on Max

3 days agoby Alxc1

It is giving new error, even in fresh chat exceeded max block every 2 mins.

1 day agoby Aaditya4u

Claude Code seems to be back up

3 days agoby dysoco

Their website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500.

-edit- CC is back up on my machine

3 days agoby world2vec

Was getting 500 errors from Claude Code this morning but their status page was green. So frustrating that these pages aren't automated, especially considering there are paying users affected.

3 days agoby paxys

I was trying to set up OpenClaw and broke it. My bad guys.

3 days agoby xd1936

We need an updated XKCD comic where they are sword fighting but instead of “compiling” its “Anthropic is down”.

3 days agoby VladVladikoff

Probably everyone refreshing to see if Sonnet5 is out yet :)

3 days agoby deanc

No big deal for people who know how to do their job.

3 days agoby faefox

Status page reports it's back up

3 days agoby yodon

Signal too

3 days agoby gsibble

Yeah using Claude-Desktop is broken current, all my mcp tool calls keep failing and retrying, then it'll work for a bit, and stop again. In just retrying in an Opus chat in desktop to make it finish doing what I started it's wasted 35% of my Pro hourly quota.

This is why I stopped paying for Max until they fix this shit.

3 days agoby bastard_op

What's updog?

3 days agoby abrinz

Now people are opening issues and LLMs are responding in completely nonsensical ways, nice one https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22843

3 days agoby kaelandt

Yup. SOS

3 days agoby jackinthehat

Seems like a wider issue. Signal is down too, youtube seems to be struggling. Here we go again...

3 days agoby StingyJelly

its up !

3 days agoby Jgoauh

What does Down mean in this context? I imagine running inference on any server suffices. Just rent AWS since Amazon owns it anyways and keep Claude running.

3 days agoby EngineerUSA

Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.

3 days agoby peter422

Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab.

It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular.

I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts?

To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.

3 days agoby bergheim