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  • Coding is largely solved!!
    by acedTrex
  • Except when you have internet of course.

    Yes I know you can run offline models, but it's hard to pass up on a little bit of snark.

    by figmert
  • Claude is starting to look like Rational....Oh the memories...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_Software

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_unified_process

    by tcp_handshaker
  • Only getting errors with Auto Mode's safety classifier, switched to Accept Edits mode and the same bash operations triggering the errors executed with no issue.
    by uhuhuhuhuhuh
  • i love when these errors bust my long running sessions and render them unusable
    by m_ke
  • Would be nice if they’d add in a simple back off retry mechanism.
    by unshavedyak
  • Lose too many generators, did putting a pause on The Fable not free up enough capacity, or something else? Who knows!

    Can't wait for debugging to be solved. Hell, I might even subscribe for 'mostly'.

    by bravetraveler
  • Resolve elevated errors, don't stop until you are finished.
    by pton_xd
  • You're absolutely right!
    by solomonb
  • How is their "Claude for Government" having such a good uptime? I thought they were a supply chain risk and banned from use by the government?
    by rootlocus
  • Ah yes, the ominous “the government” that ignores a whole bunch of different levels and regions of governments.
    by iAMkenough
  • Left hand, right hand
    by spicyusername
  • Separate infrastructure and a more predictable workload, I'd imagine.
    by ceejayoz
  • There are other governments.
    by jdiff
  • How does Claude fix Claude when Claude is down?
    by blitzar
  • There is a rumor this used to be done by humans, they were like jedis, I personally don't believe it.
    by tcp_handshaker
  • Le Chaton Fat to the rescue!
    by re-thc
  • I'm sure Anthropic has a meta-Claude that claudes Claude when Claude is down.
    by InsideOutSanta
  • Breakglass ChatGPT subscription
    by time0ut
  • This is every few weeks, I cancelled Anthropic and now use Codex only. Anthropic has been a hot mess since at least december in my usage, and has only gotten worse in 2026.
    by bastard_op
  • I actually feel like it's gotten much better in the past 1-2 months? Admittedly a low bar.
    by Wowfunhappy
  • As a counter data point, I've been using Claude as my main assistant for months now and have never experienced this.
    by thinkingtoilet
  • Claude is broken once a week, codex is worse every day. I’m starting to understand why managers put up with high-performance divas
    by nikanj
  • Yeah, it's been a hot mess since everyone started using it all the time. Which is not all that surprising. It's really hard to scale fast, and even more so when the resources you depend on (GPUs) are extremely hard to acquire.
    by jonas21
  • I’ve been using Codex w GPT 5.5 more than Claude Code recently. I think Anthropic won the marketing game because Codex is quite good, even better IME.
    by wxw
  • One very annoying thing about Codex: You can't do anything until all MCP servers are loaded and connected (or failed).

    Can you move it to background connection?

    by throwaw12
  • Claude has always been better at making pretty frontends, which is crucial for people that vibecode entire apps in a couple of prompts. And that people drive a lot of the hype.

    Codex ever since ~5.2 has been better at long tasks in large codebases.

    by redox99
  • I'm not sure about that. Claude has some bugs, but Codex is not as polished and doesn't have as many features. For example, you need to add MCP servers manually. There's no Plugin/Skill/Connector marketplace that is accessible from within the app, like there is with Claude Desktop. The Cowork-equivalent is nowhere as powerful. And so on.

    I still use Codex, but mostly when I need to check Opus 4.8's work. Pretty sure I will stop doing that soon, because during the short time Fable was available, Codex was not able to find any important issues with the code Fable wrote.

    by enraged_camel
  • I started using GPT for coding for the first time this week, and I’m sort of in awe at how well it’s following all of my hooks, skills, and prompts. GPT is so unlazy and deterministic, it’s honestly been so refreshing this week. I cancelled my Claude 20X and replaced it with GPT 20X, no regrets so far.

    That said, I feel icky, like I just made a Facebook account in 2026 :(

    by testfrequency
  • The errors are infrequent enough that this normally wouldn't be an issue for me.

    Except, starting this morning, one very long running session decided to start spawning subagents for each task. I'm not sure what caused this emergent behavior, but it seemed to be working fine, so I was eager to see where it went.

    Except, as soon as a subagent hits a 500 error, the main agent seemingly doesn't know what to do. It kind of panics—"now the tree/install state is unknown!"—and ultimately does a git checkout "to verify and restore a known-good state before anything else".

    I've paused the job for now since it's a sort of background experiment.

    by Wowfunhappy