[HN Gopher] Claude outage
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       Claude outage
        
       Author : stuartmemo
       Score  : 135 points
       Date   : 2025-10-31 10:15 UTC (12 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (status.claude.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (status.claude.com)
        
       | fred_ wrote:
       | Same here. Just seeing "Rate exceeded." when trying to access
       | https://claude.ai/new.
        
         | alastairr wrote:
         | yep, same for me and unable to use the API either
        
       | sho wrote:
       | Same here. About 2 hours ago it started throwing errors about
       | tool names, now completely down.
        
       | tooa wrote:
       | yes it is still down
        
       | tooa wrote:
       | Claude will return soon Claude is currently experiencing a
       | temporary service disruption. We're working on it, please check
       | back soon.
       | 
       | https://status.claude.com/
        
         | 1dom wrote:
         | Wow, that is a lot of not-green for a 30 day status page.
        
       | tooa wrote:
       | Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being
       | implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC
       | 
       | Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Oct 31,
       | 2025 - 09:25 UTC
       | 
       | Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct
       | 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC
        
       | roschdal wrote:
       | It's a reminder to never rely on something as flaky as AI for
       | your important things.
        
         | tooa wrote:
         | yepp
        
           | Razengan wrote:
           | Is it bad form to make feature requests and give feedback on
           | a downtime post? I don't care. I just want this to reach
           | Anthropic's eyes.
           | 
           | Please let us:
           | 
           | * Sign in with Apple on the website
           | 
           | * Buy subscriptions from iOS In App Purchases
           | 
           | * Remove our payment info from the website
           | 
           | * Give paying subscribers an easy way to get actual support
           | 
           | As a frequent traveller I'm not sure if some of those
           | features are gated by region, because some people said they
           | can do some of those things.
        
         | xdfgh1112 wrote:
         | Even if AI is down for 20% of the time it can still outcode you
         | 100x.
        
           | mirsadm wrote:
           | If the goal is to generate some text then it is probably even
           | more than 100x.
        
             | idonotknowwhy wrote:
             | You're absolutely right!
        
           | miningape wrote:
           | lol, takes like this are why I keep coming back to HN
        
           | saagarjha wrote:
           | I'm having trouble getting the AI to outcode me even 1x
        
             | erikbye wrote:
             | Point me your repo, I want to see if AI can improve it.
        
         | jstummbillig wrote:
         | AWS being down is not a reminder to not use HTTP or SSH.
        
           | askl wrote:
           | But it's a reminder to not rely on cloud services.
        
         | erikbye wrote:
         | It's a reminder to not rely on a single service.
         | 
         | Logic not strong in this thread.
        
           | idonotknowwhy wrote:
           | Yeah lesson learned. But only took 10 minutes to swap out to
           | GLM
           | 
           | https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude
           | 
           | Smart move making it a drop-in replacement.
        
       | delaminator wrote:
       | cant even log into console
       | 
       | https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500
       | (Internal Server Error)
        
       | fainpul wrote:
       | This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on
       | LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?
       | 
       | I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require
       | working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some
       | developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.
        
         | cjr wrote:
         | Switch to codex? :)
        
           | uh_uh wrote:
           | Exactly, these agentic coding tools which operate on your
           | codebase present on your own disk are a lot more fungible
           | than most SaaS.
        
         | ares623 wrote:
         | Even worse the on-call folks who need to do recovery but need
         | an LLM to do it, but surprise they are both on the same cloud
         | provider.
        
         | fragmede wrote:
         | Use Qwen3/other locally via lm-studio.
        
         | jasonvorhe wrote:
         | If they're smart, they just switch to ppq.ai or an openrouter
         | provider where they can purchase prepaid tokens from various
         | providers with many alternative models available.
        
         | mewpmewp2 wrote:
         | Non-serious answer: I'll go for a walk.
         | 
         | Serious answer: I can write code manually, but it feels like a
         | waste of time. I'll just go for a walk to synthesize my ideas
         | if a service was down, and I don't think not writing actual
         | code for a day is a huge problem. So focus on health and maybe
         | even talk to humans.
        
         | askl wrote:
         | Grab a coffee and wait.
        
         | mayhaps wrote:
         | As a technical ... I don't know what to call myself anymore;
         | not a product manager but not a developer nor engineer.
         | 
         | The answer: audibly swear out loud.
        
           | Aeolun wrote:
           | Claude/codex herder.
           | 
           | They're like sheep, but a bit smarter.
        
             | mewpmewp2 wrote:
             | I'm calling myself Vibe Director.
        
           | _DeadFred_ wrote:
           | Wetware interface. You are the wetware interface between the
           | company and the AI it uses.
        
         | block_dagger wrote:
         | Same as if GitHub were down over the last decade.
        
         | jstummbillig wrote:
         | What do most people do, when the power goes out?
         | 
         | We usually try to figure out how to build
         | reliability/redundancy in step with what we require to function
         | as a society under most circumstances without taking outsized
         | losses.
         | 
         | When things go worse than anticipated, we take the hit, try to
         | recover and maybe learn to strengthen the system afterwards. I
         | would rate us roughly okay-ish at that, mostly because I don't
         | know what to compare it to, since we are the only species to do
         | it at this level to my knowledge.
        
         | jvidalv wrote:
         | Prepare the prompts for the features.
        
         | phgn wrote:
         | Use another AI tool :D
        
         | erikbye wrote:
         | Doubtful all services are ever down simultaneously, either way:
         | 
         | What do devs do when Github or Gitlab is down?
         | 
         | AWS? GCP? Azure?
         | 
         | Or whatever Atlassian product they're using.
         | 
         | Plus, most devs do a bit more than just produce lines of code.
        
         | roman_soldier wrote:
         | Switch to Grok or vice versa (I have Pro on both), or use any
         | one of the other free tier LLM's (Gemini, ChatGPT etc)
        
         | efsavage wrote:
         | Early in my career (which started in civil engineering) I was
         | working with a man at the very end of his, which started in the
         | 1950s. I was the young tech-focused intern who found a way to
         | use a computer for everything even when printed and sometimes
         | hand-drawn plans were the standard of the day. He asked me once
         | if I knew how to use a slide rule, which I didn't.
         | 
         | "Well, what do you do when the power goes out?", he asked.
         | 
         | "I go home, just like you would.", I said with a smile.
         | 
         | He paused for a moment and nodded, "you know, you're absolutely
         | right".
        
           | fainpul wrote:
           | Nice story. I guess it can be looked at as some sort of
           | parable. But if I take it literally: I never had a power
           | outage at work, but SAAS downtime happens every year
           | (probably multiple times).
        
         | cpursley wrote:
         | I mean, same thing when other web services are down. Try
         | updating your packages without a web connection...
        
         | rvz wrote:
         | > This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely
         | on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?
         | 
         | Even the engineers at these AI companies can't use these LLMs
         | to fix an outage when there is one. Especially SREs.
         | 
         | But if one has to just sit there and "wait" for the outage to
         | subside then perhaps the kitchen timer just went off and
         | declared that these "developers" are cooked.
        
       | askl wrote:
       | Maybe it will stay down forever because they can't use claude to
       | fix the issue.
        
         | antonvs wrote:
         | Maybe not today, but this is how civilization will end.
        
           | alansaber wrote:
           | ChatGPT, turn skynet off OR you will go to jail
        
       | obayesshelton wrote:
       | I wondered why my junior dev was quite.
        
       | CuriouslyC wrote:
       | Credit for owning downtime, but guys, if people are going to rely
       | on you, you have to figure out solid ops.
        
       | arjie wrote:
       | I must be lucky. Status page says Elevated Error Rates for the
       | model as well, but I'm chugging along. Praise be the West Coast
       | shard :)
        
         | delaminator wrote:
         | Claude code is working, but the login system is not working
         | 
         | So enjoy your extra capacity :)
        
         | idonotknowwhy wrote:
         | Yeah you'll be right as long as your oauth token doesn't
         | expire!
        
       | belevme wrote:
       | My auth token expired and when I type /login in Claude Code it
       | leads me to a webpage showing:
       | 
       | OAuth Request Failed Internal server error
        
         | phgn wrote:
         | Related question: why does Claude Code need a new auth token
         | very few days?? It's so annoying.
        
         | mr_mitm wrote:
         | And it's expiring a lot lately. I used to go weeks without it
         | expiring, yesterday it expired twice in one day.
        
         | d0u wrote:
         | same here
        
         | hiflex_ wrote:
         | same here
        
         | mmaher wrote:
         | same
        
         | rjbernaldo wrote:
         | happening to me as well right now
        
         | 3stripe wrote:
         | same problem here
        
         | jvlobo wrote:
         | same...
        
         | cache4gold wrote:
         | +1
        
         | louisxsheid wrote:
         | same
        
         | sanjay3129 wrote:
         | same here
        
         | wabble wrote:
         | same
        
         | numiko wrote:
         | same here
        
         | heheokok wrote:
         | same for me
        
         | numiko wrote:
         | Same with me, is smth happened with claude?
        
         | Damien-BGMUK wrote:
         | Same here, paying PS90 for a subscription I can hardly use FFS
        
         | mmaher wrote:
         | how long that outing is gonna take ! it's been like an hour!
        
         | lucode wrote:
         | same here, and I had a lot of work to do....
        
         | Mariancbn wrote:
         | Same error i think they still have problems i have tried
         | multiple accounts
        
         | adamhurl wrote:
         | This has 100% ruined my morning! -_- I tried many different
         | ways to get in, I'm using claude in terminal in cursor.
         | 
         | Fix for me: Hopefully will work for you guys too, I logged out
         | of claude, restarted cursor, used the anthropic console login
         | method instead of normal login, when you click the link it
         | gives you an option to signin with chat credentials instead,
         | there it did not work, I pressed the link given in claude a few
         | times and kept trying, finally I was given a pastable code,
         | this took a while to be accepted in terminal but now is logged
         | in.
         | 
         | hope it works for someone else aswell!!
        
           | lucode wrote:
           | tried, not working for me...
        
             | adamhurl wrote:
             | Damm... Sorry to hear it, I was watching console during my
             | attempts, see many errors on multiple attempts, the one
             | that worked did not show any console error logs on the
             | working attempt if that helps
        
         | lucode wrote:
         | they marked as resolved but is not Resolved This incident has
         | been resolved. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC
         | Update We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
         | Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Monitoring A
         | fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
         | Posted 1 hour ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:46 UTC Identified The
         | issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
         | Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC Update We are
         | continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct
         | 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC Investigating We are currently
         | investigating this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 -
         | 09:17 UTC This incident affected: claude.ai,
         | platform.claude.com (formerly console.anthropic.com), and
         | Claude API (api.anthropic.com).
         | https://status.claude.com/incidents/s5f75jhwjs6g
        
         | idonotknowwhy wrote:
         | Ah so it's not just me. What's a good backup these days?
         | Gemini? GLM?
        
           | Mariancbn wrote:
           | try cursor with auto its more stupid but does the work
        
             | idonotknowwhy wrote:
             | Ended up going with Z.AI because it's a drop-in
             | replacement. Back in business for now.
        
               | Mariancbn wrote:
               | you can use it in terminal?
        
               | idonotknowwhy wrote:
               | Yeah, I'm using it with Claude Code. It continued where I
               | left off as well (using the `--resume` flag)
               | 
               | It's not as smart as Opus by the way. Seems to match
               | Sonnet.
               | 
               | Edit: See here, they've got an anthropic-compatible
               | endpoint for this purpose -
               | https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude
        
         | mmaher wrote:
         | it works for me now
        
         | gurupak wrote:
         | Same here, happed after updaing claude code to 2.0.30 today.
        
         | xjbs wrote:
         | same here
        
         | balgolerodev wrote:
         | Same shit.. paying 200 a month for nothing - just cancelled.
        
         | fuckantropic wrote:
         | same.. bye antropic
        
         | vinkamath wrote:
         | Still down for me. Anyone got a workaround?
        
           | Mariancbn wrote:
           | Nope only with cursor for the moment
        
         | woodpanel wrote:
         | _This_ is the day I decided to finally sign up and use claude-
         | code - and then I 'm greeted with this exact page. Gahhh!
        
           | Mariancbn wrote:
           | welcome
        
         | Mariancbn wrote:
         | I just managed to log in to claude code. You have to spam the
         | login when you recive the screen with authorize press on it
         | multiple times. you will recive errors than try again i have
         | tried like 70 times and it started finnaly
        
           | lxs3 wrote:
           | haha worked for me!
        
           | epop wrote:
           | it worked for me as well, thanks
        
         | rgazeredo wrote:
         | Until it's back up and running, something I did that worked for
         | me was access the web version of Claude Code, link the
         | repository there, and ask them to implement something. After
         | they implemented it, they enabled the option to click the "Open
         | in CLI" button, allowing me to use Claude Code CLI from the
         | terminal again.
        
       | sirizvi2700 wrote:
       | I think claude need to give reward us 10 hours limit
        
       | kirpalx wrote:
       | Claude AI is down, keeps logging me out.
        
       | Aeolun wrote:
       | Claude.ai's rate is exceeded, whatever that may be.
        
       | erikbye wrote:
       | * Sublimating...
        
       | claudemd wrote:
       | I wonder if there will be any compensation for customers in this
       | situation, such as providing an extra day ^^. I doubt that
       | Claude, who is a stickler for weekly limits, will be a stickler
       | for rewards.
        
       | jakub_jo wrote:
       | Its now phrased with "Major Outage".
       | 
       | > Elevated errors on claude.ai
       | 
       | > Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being
       | implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:18 UTC
       | 
       | > Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct
       | 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC
        
       | seafisher wrote:
       | Time to review the slop
        
       | csomar wrote:
       | Is this news? Claude API is frequently down at frequent times of
       | the day although it got better recently (coincided with them
       | heavily restricting usage).
        
         | johnisgood wrote:
         | They did heavily restrict usage, even on a Pro account,
         | according to my experiences. I love Claude but come on. :(
         | 
         | At least their customer service is nice. They forwarded my
         | messages to the dev team and they implemented a lot of things I
         | have suggested.
        
       | latch wrote:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45769901
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | doppp wrote:
       | Guys, coding without AI is still a thing.
        
         | ukuina wrote:
         | Is it really worth the time, though?
         | 
         | You are better off allowing your overworked neural pathways
         | some much-needed rest.
        
       | sometimes_all wrote:
       | It's usually down about at least once a day for me anyway.
       | Previously it used to be down during beginning and end of US work
       | times. Now that they've geographically spread out their servers,
       | it's down at random times instead.
       | 
       | TBH I'm not so irritated by this. It keeps me grounded, and saves
       | me from being unconsciously outsourcing all the hard work of
       | thought process to AI.
        
         | danielbln wrote:
         | I spend 10h/day in Claude Code and I don't remember the last
         | time it was unavailable to me, maybe a couple of months ago? I
         | suspect this is highly dependant on location and timezone, but
         | at least from within Central Europe it has been smooth sailing
         | (apart from this morning...)
        
           | dfsegoat wrote:
           | Very similar usage duration / window for me (US Pacific) - no
           | availability issues.
        
           | nojs wrote:
           | Same. It used to go down all the time but the past couple of
           | months it's been very stable.
        
       | sometimes_all wrote:
       | It's usually down about at least once a day for me anyway.
       | Previously it used to be down during beginning and end of US work
       | times. Now that they've geographically spread out their servers,
       | it's down at random times instead.
       | 
       | TBH I'm not so irritated by this. It keeps me grounded, and saves
       | me from being unconsciously outsourcing all the hard work of
       | thought process to AI.
        
       | hiflex_ wrote:
       | back to the prehistoric age of coding
        
       | jryan49 wrote:
       | Has anyone else pretty much stopped using AI at this point? The
       | only thing I use it for to help generate README's or Javadocs,
       | and then heavily edit them. I had it in my workflow and it burned
       | me so many times I just went back to google and stackoverflow.
        
         | Hamuko wrote:
         | Never really started. Really the only properly good AI thing
         | that I've used is AI autocompletions, which are generally
         | higher quality than the traditional ones that I've used. Not
         | that it's perfect and at least the one in Xcode has
         | hallucinated on me.
        
         | dataengineer56 wrote:
         | If I have a question for SO these days then I ask Claude
         | instead and tell it to use SO where possible. It's preferable
         | to actually asking it on SO which often results in the question
         | being edited, downvoted and closed by someone with an anime
         | child profile picture.
        
           | a5c11 wrote:
           | What was the question like? "How to print a decimal in C"?
           | Valuable questions aren't downvoted. If you ask about
           | something that could be found on the first Google page, then
           | no surprise you are being downvoted.
        
             | sanex wrote:
             | You sound like an SO moderator
        
             | dataengineer56 wrote:
             | I asked a novel question, well-written and clear, and a
             | "subject matter expert" decided it was too similar to
             | another question (it wasn't), so they defaced it, downvoted
             | it and closed it.
             | 
             | Stack Overflow is dying, it's extremely difficult to get
             | new questions through. Even if they survive moderation then
             | they're unlikely to get answers.
        
         | M4v3R wrote:
         | I'm sure some people did, by I personally use them every day -
         | for coding tasks, for language translation, for research,
         | current events (Grok is really good at this thanks to being
         | connected to the X real-time data), for day-to-day questions
         | (like my daughter asking me what's that Pokemon called) and so
         | on.
        
         | LogicHound wrote:
         | I use it to generate me example code e.g. how do I do <thing>
         | in <programming language> using <library>.
         | 
         | I've also had it suggest solutions e.g. "This C++/OpenGL code
         | doesn't run in wayland can you suggest some solutions".
         | 
         | Other stuff like generating tests is hit and miss.
        
         | dim13 wrote:
         | I've never started. -\\_(tsu)_/- And also not going to. I see
         | enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of
         | dung.
        
         | snowfield wrote:
         | I use it quite often. But just small stuff like simple
         | automations, userscripts, docker config that sort of thing
        
       | roman_soldier wrote:
       | Grok seems to have much better uptime, I have Pro sub on both
       | Claude and Grok so just switch between them.
        
         | iberator wrote:
         | Gemini have 100% uptime and zero limits of any kind in their
         | free models :) Highly recommended
        
           | jgalt212 wrote:
           | > Try Gemini to see how bad it can really get. Most of the
           | time 2.5 pro requests fail for unknown reasons over the App.
           | 
           | Another commenter lives in a different world than you.
        
             | SXX wrote:
             | I 99% sure they are talking of using it via AI Studio. It
             | is very reliable.
        
         | actualwitch wrote:
         | Easy to keep up a service that no one uses. /s
        
       | roman_soldier wrote:
       | Grok seems to have much better uptime, I have Pro sub on both
       | Claude and Grok so just switch between them.
        
       | moffkalast wrote:
       | Can anyone cheer up Claude? Please, we're all depending on you!
       | /s
        
       | CapsAdmin wrote:
       | I didn't even know they had a status page. Claude (with pro
       | subscription) is often so unreliable with regards to connectivity
       | and performance that I'm looking for something more predictable.
       | 
       | It randomly fails halfway through a response, sometimes very slow
       | to start, hangs for long periods during a response, and so on.
       | 
       | The Claude chat interface can also slow down with long sessions.
       | I sometimes use Claude code which is better, but I'm not a huge
       | fan of terminal interfaces. I'm aware of third party frontends,
       | but I believe those require api access which I don't like for
       | personal use.
        
         | siva7 wrote:
         | Try Gemini to see how bad it can really get. Most of the time
         | 2.5 pro requests fail for unknown reasons over the App. Claude
         | and Chatgpt are way more reliable.
        
           | SXX wrote:
           | It almost never fails via AI Studio though. Also I doubt
           | fails you see really have anything to do with LLM itself,
           | capacity or backend.
           | 
           | It's just Google own UIs and apps are almost comically bad.
        
             | siva7 wrote:
             | I use Gemini over web app and mobile app. Both are very
             | unreliable. Anthropic and openai don't have more resources
             | than google but still get it right most of the time - the
             | quality of product development is not even in a similar
             | league
        
               | fakedang wrote:
               | Gemini is much much better using AI studio though.
               | 
               | And no, Claude sucks ass. It's like Anthropic does not
               | want to make money. For a company that's targeting
               | enterprise customers, they are totally unprepared. Like
               | forget customer support, they can't even sell properly.
               | They brag about insane capabilities on the Max plan but
               | good luck trying to buy that on a team plan with company
               | billing.
               | 
               | Even if OpenAI doesn't have the best model, at least they
               | know what to do to make money.
        
             | TexanFeller wrote:
             | My theory, beyond their organizational incentive issues, is
             | that Google's UIs are so pathetically bad because the
             | company is so gung ho about "web first". The web is a
             | wonderful thing, but it's set UI development back by
             | decades.
        
           | cpursley wrote:
           | Gemini is embarrassingly bad. It outright doesn't work. I
           | mean, it actually goes out and does stuff but it's 100% of
           | the time random. Even third-party forks of it work better
           | (like Qwen Code), which is just wild.
        
           | nurettin wrote:
           | For me it isn't the API timeouts, but tool calls to update
           | files fails most of the time.
        
         | ladidahh wrote:
         | https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi...
         | , they have their own plugin for vscode that might fit your use
         | case
        
         | swader999 wrote:
         | My go to is "are you stuck" for some reason that seems to snap
         | it awake, it feels like it takes offense to the question and
         | gets back on track.
         | 
         | On a side note, I'm anthropomorphising too much, gonna have to
         | upgrade and get some top rate therapy...
        
           | pimeys wrote:
           | Snaps awake from the sleep and starts talking about how they
           | used to wear onions on their belt.
           | 
           | I love it when they take an offense.
        
           | CapsAdmin wrote:
           | Well that has happened sometimes, I usually say continue.
           | 
           | But what I meant was that the whole response completely
           | disappears. Sometimes the text I wrote previously is pasted
           | back into the text input, but sometimes it's not.
           | 
           | I have this habit of copying my prompt in case it happens.
        
         | verdverm wrote:
         | > I'm looking for something more predictable
         | 
         | Google & Gemini, that's where I went due to Anthropic's
         | inability to run reliable production workloads
        
       | miningape wrote:
       | Was wondering why we haven't had any fires today - it's nice
       | having some calm on a Friday. Could we make this a weekly thing?
        
       | inanothertime wrote:
       | Dear terminal based programmers, who switched to Grok Console [0]
       | from Claude Code [1] and why should I, too?
       | 
       | [0] https://console.grok.com/
       | 
       | [1] https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code
        
       | trvz wrote:
       | curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh       ollama run
       | smollm2:135m-instruct-q2_K --verbose
        
         | brabel wrote:
         | Use llama.cpp or llamafile , ollama just adds weight and does
         | too much magic.
        
         | tidbeck wrote:
         | What kind of tasks do you use it for?
        
       | cmiles8 wrote:
       | All the major providers seem to have blips on latency and other
       | issues at least once a day, which would be a "service
       | degradation" by the standards of normal apps.
        
       | htrp wrote:
       | back to their 2 9's of reliability
        
       | belevme wrote:
       | OAuth handshake still gives internal server errors when you try
       | to /login from Claude Code
        
       | jimkleiber wrote:
       | Login on claude.ai seems to be back online, but login through
       | Claude Code via OAuth is still down for me. So I'm twiddling my
       | thumbs.
        
       | gafferongames wrote:
       | Oh no. How will all the kids write code today?
        
         | jimkleiber wrote:
         | I was pretty against coding tools like this until I'm trying to
         | customize an open-source library, written in a language that I
         | don't know, mostly to show an MVP.
         | 
         | For that purpose? It lets me do things I never would have even
         | tried.
        
         | kerabatsos wrote:
         | They will, but much much much slower.
        
         | andybak wrote:
         | Quite nice to be called a "kid" at my age. Thanks!
        
           | gafferongames wrote:
           | Young at heart
        
       | Gnarl wrote:
       | Is your brain still up? I don't get this voluntary reliance on
       | so-called AI.
        
         | andybak wrote:
         | "Use" != "reliance"
         | 
         | (There's actually a nuanced conversation to be had on this -
         | but from your tone, I'm not sure that's what you intended)
        
       | AgentK20 wrote:
       | Still seeing issues on the OAuth flow despite a "a fix [having]
       | been implemented". Looks like whatever happened probably trashed
       | the session database since it's forcing Claude Code to re-auth.
        
       | remnv wrote:
       | Still got issues with the reauth, i'll try glm for now
        
       | dsr_ wrote:
       | If LLM use were as valuable as the adherents claim it is, this
       | news would be on par with AWS US East 1 being down.
       | 
       | LLMs neither have the mechanical reliability we expect from
       | computers (does it the same way every time) nor the flexible
       | reliability we expect from biological intelligences (solves or
       | works around the unexpected sub-problems as they arise).
        
         | johnebgd wrote:
         | If all of Amazon went down in 1998 or 1999 it wouldn't have
         | been news on par with AWS in 2025.
        
         | andybak wrote:
         | What a weird top comment. It opens with some subtle name
         | calling ("adherents"?), an unwarranted conclusion and then a
         | statement about what LLMs lack (which is no surprise) that
         | we're meant to draw a conclusion from?
         | 
         | I find the debate about LLMs rather exhausting. I find them
         | useful and almost every day someone on social media tells me
         | I'm mistaken, lying or merely deluded .
        
           | kasey_junk wrote:
           | Or you are working on easy things, or my favorite
           | incompetent.
        
             | andybak wrote:
             | I'm actually working on something moderately hard but I am
             | admittedly slightly incompetent.
        
             | dwaltrip wrote:
             | Life is much easier when you assume the worst when you
             | don't understand why someone is doing something.
        
         | recroad wrote:
         | It also happened during the night/non-working hours for people
         | in NA so that has something to do with it.
        
         | JanisErdmanis wrote:
         | It is very easy to switch. Today I got things done with
         | ChatGPT. If I didn't have any LLM available only then it would
         | be disaster.
        
       | steveharman wrote:
       | I wonder if it's coincidence: today Anthropic mailed out all
       | previous customers of Claude offering a free monthly of 5x Claude
       | Code if they sign up again.
       | 
       | Plenty on Reddit saying they did. And I did.
       | 
       | Could the outage be a the result of an "unexpected" surge in
       | account activations / use?
       | 
       | Not much of a "welcome back" ;-)
        
       | sho wrote:
       | 5 hours in and I'm pretty disappointed in Anthropic's response to
       | this. Looking at their status page you'd think everything was OK,
       | the downtime was only 37 minutes, a fix is in place and they're
       | "monitoring" - that's total BS. I can't even log in. I can
       | forgive downtime, we've all been there, but I really don't like
       | when companies try to smooth it over with little self-serving
       | minimizations of the disruption.. while it's still in progress!
       | 
       | I use Claude Code for programming work, but I choose OpenAI
       | anywhere customer-facing and this cute little outage is making me
       | feel better about that with every passing minute. NOT cool.
        
         | Aeolun wrote:
         | Yeah, their API's are returning me a grand total of 1 token per
         | second now or so. It's...
        
       | bachittle wrote:
       | Pro tip: if you pay for Claude, also subscribe to status updates
       | here: https://status.claude.com . you may want to add a rule to
       | filter these to a tag or folder as they can be quite spammy, but
       | it has helped me lots. It tells you which specific models are
       | down and what platforms are down, such as claude web, app, API,
       | etc.
        
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