[HN Gopher] Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6
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       Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6
        
       Author : rob
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2026-03-17 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (status.claude.com)
        
       | bluesnowmonkey wrote:
       | This one is taking them a while to fix.
        
         | tills13 wrote:
         | Have they tried asking Claude to fix it no mistakes?
        
       | poemxo wrote:
       | 9 retries on easy prompts, all morning and afternoon
        
       | ed_mercer wrote:
       | How is this still a problem? This has happened so many times now.
        
         | mpalmer wrote:
         | I mean... it's not a microblogging service, or even Github.
         | Think of the resources you are marshaling and tapping into when
         | you request Opus inference.
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         | Think of the _statefulness_ of the systems necessary to manage
         | prompt caching.
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         | Not to mention all the enterprise SLAs they have to meet before
         | they serve traffic to gen pop.
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         | Additionally:
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         | - I believe Anthropic is running a planned promotion where
         | short-term limits are doubled? Could be off on the dates
         | though.
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         | - It's two weeks before EOQ, and everyone's no doubt modeling
         | and planning EVERYTHING last minute, because with Claude they
         | can
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         | - It is valuable infrastucture and thus a potential target of
         | attackers
        
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