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  • Yes yes it is key that we vibe code critical infrastructure. I can't wait to see a claude-ism in my next BIOS update.
    by alansaber
  • They cant solve the infrastructure problem until Claude is back up....
    by tcp_handshaker
  • Anyone can explain why do they fail so often and so seriously? Is this inherent to managing LLMs or is their Ops really just that bad?
    by cromka
  • Because they can’t keep up with the demand?
    by vinni2
  • Everything is vibe coded, would you expect anything different?
    by slopinthebag
  • Clearly they just want to be down all the time. They have the ability to throttle down traffic. I have no clue why they decide to throttle it down just enough to have the worst of both worlds, throttling and incidents. Throttle more and have zero incidents, what an incredible revelation.
    by vasco
  • I think it's because customers don't seem to mind enough to switch.

    I really want to support Anthropic because of their commitments to effective altruism, but it's getting harder and harder to justify on technical merits. Sol is just faster, cheaper, and more reliable, and as good as Opus for my use cases

    by Recursing
  • Because coding is solved and there’s no need for software engineers any more.

    Being charitable to Anthropic though: coding is sort of solved for a very limited definition of “solved”.

    Software engineering of huge distributed systems at massive scale is very much not solved, and it seems Anthropic don’t have the human capital to do it particularly well

    by ifwinterco
  • Anthropic has constant failure since morning.
    by vikrantrathore
  • How they go down globally? All regions use the same infra?
    by indrex
  • Are they really though? The graphic seems to be highly misleading. And marks a whole day as red when there was only a partial outage for one hour.
    by singularity2001
  • It was a configuration error ...
    by Iolaum
  • I really love using Claude, but running its API in production was a constant headache (they hv most horrible status graph), switched to Gemini and didn't hit any major downtime since...
    by virajk_31
  • checkout my claude-code plugin to display Claude Code status directly in the status line (below prompt textfield) https://github.com/moumine9/claude-status
    by ex1fm3ta
  • Great reminder to be using multiple providers (i.e. Anthropic 1P, Bedrock, Vertex AI, Azure) with auto-fallback.

    Bedrock has been fine throughout today; just pick two providers and you have much more stable Claude :)

    Also, sometimes older models work fine, Opus 4.8/4.6/4.5 are worth trying.

    by dannyw
  • Failover saves the call, not the run. If the provider fails mid-agent run, the second provider starts without knowing which tool calls have already been written, and the retry on a non-idempotent write simply creates the record twice. Without an idempotency key for each tool call and a checkpoint after each write, two providers make you available, but not correctly.
    by renezander030
  • Never put all AI taxes in one basket!
    by wartywhoa23
  • It's fun to offer this advice but I think actually practicing it is nearly impossible in many settings.

    If you are a solo developer who has the patience to tinker endlessly, this advice is probably fine.

    If you are responsible for provisioning AI services in a team setting, this advice starts to fall apart rapidly. OAI and Anthropic might as well be oil and water when it comes to what tools and descriptions are most ideal.

    Swapping the inference provider like it's some interchangeable module is a total fantasy in most real world settings.

    > Also, sometimes older models work fine

    > sometimes

    My users are hoping for slightly more definitive results. "Usually" or even "often" would be much preferred.

    by bob1029
  • >Also, sometimes older models work fine, Opus 4.8/4.6/4.5 are worth trying.

    I would go as far as saying they are sometimes better than the newer ones! It is impressive that Opus 5 can one-shot a complex website, but it is very annoying if I only asked it to write tests.

    Last week, I asked Sonnet 5 to add one line to the documentation, commit, and push. Ten minutes later, I discovered it embarked on a side quest of exploring my whole Git history, different branches, etc.

    by dr_kiszonka
  • "Coding is solved", how ironic.
    by tvbusy
  • Bad coding is solved.
    by chrisjj
  • One of the Anthropic salesmen told everyone to use loops all over the place, auto mode and use Fable 5 and Opus 5 with multiple sub agents.

    Then it seems they forgot about their own infrastructure which goes down once every two weeks.

    Looks like most of all the engineering knowledge that was needed at Google was lost after the whole org at Anthropic is now vibing their work.

    Rather than screaming “coding is solved!”, “AGI with a month” and spooking everyone with the bogus mysticism of “Mythos” which now everyone has an equivalent strong cyber model, maybe keep the lights on first before plotting the next doomsday story.

    by rvz
  • > Looks like most of all the engineering knowledge that was needed at Google was lost after the whole org at Anthropic is now vibing their work.

    Sorry, what does Google have to do with Anthropic's outage?

    by eru