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- Protip: in the olden days we used to be able to read and write code ourselves. Worth trying while Claude is down! You might have fun and learn something!by Trasmatta
- I signed up for paid plan on Claude just 3 hours ago for the first time and was scratching my head on how that thing gets praised so much if I can't even send a question half of the time....by cromka
- That's just exceptionally unfortunate timing. Anthropic has been getting better at uptime, but they still have the occasional issue.by aschla
- The rainbow has to keep being a rainbow.
ClaudeCode still has a 99.27 % uptime
ClaudeCowork has 99.52 % uptime
ClaudeForGovernment has 99.93 % uptime
by mdrzn - I must be unlucky because I'm in that .73% way more than .73% of the time.by fearmerchant
- It started failing two days ago, when it suddenly couldn't access gmail threads reliably. Then it started popping up warnings that I was over quota when I wasn't. It even let me use Fable briefly, or pretended to. Meanwhile search finally started working, so there's that.
This video, wow: https://www.threads.com/@founder__growth/post/DZz_9Ikj3Wx
Out of desperation, I moved to ChatGPT and it's working better than I remember. All these companies are playing games under load, under failure. No wonder we can't agree on what's good for what.
by badlibrarian - So can we hire back those Oracle workers to write some code now?by TheSilva
- > Be Anthropic
> Optimize your bottom line for token spending so you collect $$$$
> Release Ultracode feature that optimize for Token Spending (a.k.a Dynamic Workflows)
> Tokenmaxxing achieved + 529 Overloaded unsustainable APIs everywhere
by hmokiguess - status.claude.com looks like a holiday christmas ornamentsby ra0x3
- Strawberry gardenby zyf
- Looks like Mike and Ike candy.by braindeadly
- The ridiculous marketing message about their oh-so-good-we-cant-release-them models is just the cherry on top.by bflesch
- by dpedu
- Our team calls this "full three pepper blend" ;)by dcchuck
- I had to log in to github and review a PR by hand just now. I felt like a savage again!by swader999
- Actual 90d uptime: 97.6838% (calculated by Codex from live data)
So, only one 9 for 10x vibes.Computed from the page’s own data for 2026-03-26 through 2026-06-23: - Partial outage: 43h 15m 1s - Major outage: 6h 46m 48s - Total affected time: 50h 1m 49s - Major-only uptime: 99.6861% - I want uptime modulo in my timezone/work hours. I don't give a shit about any 9's earned while I'm sleeping.by fluidcruft
- I have been developing software since the late 80s, mostly CAM software for metal cutting machines, and I have been refereeing tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons since the late 70s.
I get the power of LLMs, and I do find them useful. But I find them useful in much the same way I find a really good set of random tables useful, or a good set of rules for procedurally generating something like a star sector for a science fiction campaign.
For my day job developing software, and for the RPG campaigns and books I run and publish today, LLMs are, in many cases, random tables on steroids. After using them for two years, even with all their improvements, I am continually reminded by the results I get that, at the heart of it, I am still dealing with what amounts to randomly generated content.
Yes, I know it is more accurate to call the process probabilistic rather than random. And yes, somebody can construct a technically deterministic setup with fixed weights, fixed seeds, fixed sampling parameters, and a frozen runtime environment. But that is like saying you can recreate a rainstorm if you get a thousand butterflies to flap their wings in exactly the right way. It may be technically true, but it is not how the technology behaves in normal day-to-day use.
For practical purposes, given the same prompt and the same apparent starting conditions, the result can differ each time you use a model. The outputs will often be highly correlated, and often useful, but they are not deterministic software in the ordinary sense.
So far, I am failing to see how the inherent probabilistic nature of the technology can be fully overcome. I understand how we got to where we are today from older neural net technology, including the systems used for vision and sound. What we have now can be very useful. But my view is that it is being badly oversold and overhyped. Its probabilistic nature is being vastly underestimated, and that is a major reason for much of the weirdness and many of the failures we keep seeing.
In tabletop roleplaying, there have been times when hobbyists relied too much on procedurally generated content and ultimately got burned by it, either through campaigns that were not as fun or products that were subpar. Each time, the lesson was the same: there is no substitute for human judgment.
Any workflow or technology incorporating LLMs has to keep humans in the loop, and not merely as rubber stamps. The human has to remain the primary decision maker.
- I think we need to disqualify humans as well. Their brains have been shown to operate on probabilistic chemical interactions and even quantum effects.by svachalek
- Setting aside that we're living in a universe that's full of (practically) deterministic processes built over probabilistic components (and which behave sufficiently reliably without any human in the loop), I think the specific failure mode you're citing is that there aren't enough gates and constraints applied to the processes you've seen.
LLMs can contribute quite reliably given very narrow prompts and short horizons (keeping turns low and context brief). If you chain a bunch of these narrow contributions together and define guardrails (structured outputs, online evals, other-llm-as-judge/jury, etc...) you can produce a very repeatable workflow that reliably delivers to defined service levels.
The obvious issue being - you've got to define the workflow and implement all the guardrails, not hope that the LLM will infer them during a session or a one-shot prompt.
by jungturk - > I am failing to see how the inherent probabilistic nature of the technology can be fully overcome.
This is common in image generation pipelines because if you find an image you really like, you can store the seed and then reproduce it with small tweaks, otherwise - to quote Borges - “Look at it well. You will never see it again" User-facing deterministic pipelines do exist for generative AI.
I know you make this argument in your post, but that's really the answer if you want repeatable results. For a classifier or a detector, determinism is a requirement, but for an LLM non-determinism desirable property because it feels like a more natural conversation. The downside is it's extremely difficult to replicate a response without pointing the model to an earlier conversation.
And specifically for the RPG case, don't you want non-determinism? You don't want the model spinning up the same identical person if you say "Generate me an NPC character sheet for an innkeeper". This was a complaint that people had in the past, that models would regurgitate the same scenarios or the same jokes.
Where I suspect DMs run into trouble is not randomness, but lack of self-consistency in worldbuilding. Say you generate an NPC and then refer back to them later and the model gets some details wrong. You could compare to a system like Dwarf Fortress where everything down to the genealogy and faction relationships are rigidly generated.
- The trouble is: there is no deterministic algorithm that can do the things neural networks can do.
For many of these problems, I think it is likely that no deterministic algorithm can exist because the problems are fundamentally underspecified. E.g. a common task in computer vision is generating a 3D depth map from a 2D image. This is inverting a lossy projection, so any solution must be a least partially a hallucination.
I think we just have to accept this. It's a different type of algorithm, built out of statistics instead of logic, with different strengths and weaknesses compared to traditional software.
by Legend2440 - > So far, I am failing to see how the inherent probabilistic nature of the technology can be fully overcome
I deeply hope we never reach the point where that’s overcome. What we’ve seen over the past few years is how AI will destroy humanness from pretty much the entire digital realm. It’s by far the most evil, anti-human technology ever created, corrupting everything it touches. The last thing we need is for it to become reliable
by dgellow - I suppose it's a good time to encourage people trying out pi[1] with any cheap model from the openrouter rankings page[1].by yanis_t
- Except I was having connection issue and errors through open router tooby MrOxiMoron
- website is super laggy and has low FPSby bflesch
- I retried Pi yesterday with GLM5.2 and Deepseek
I asked a simple question about my codebase. Pi: >60s and 100k tokens, I cancelled and gave up Claude (pointed at the same deepseek model): 17s 15k tokens
I burned my $5 GLM budget in 15 minutes.
So idk what the Pi hype is about cuz this is my 3rd disappointing try
by thejazzman - Is pi better than opencode?by cromka
- With Agent Client Protocol (ACP) you can keep the same UI and switch not models, but entire agents, that means using tools/prompts/compaction/etc that are tailored for the model.
Try Zed[1] for GUI and pool[2] for TUI.
[1] https://zed.dev/
by agentcooper - I can vouch for ohmypi, it's quite good out of the box and works great with your codex subscription or openrouter or fireworks etc. Very good harness.by sergiotapia