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Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

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Post by jcfrei »

eduardogarza wrote: post #48

Can someone that's worked at one of these big companies honestly explain how it happens that when these guys are down, it's never for like 10-15 mins ... it's always 1-2+ hours? Do they not have mechanisms in place to revert their migrations and deployments? What goes on behind the scenes during these "outages"?

Quick fixes have tendencies to break other stuff and just make matters worse. Better to leave it offline for a little longer, fix the definitive root issue and make sure it comes online nicely. If the issue was just a quirk in a recent deployment then these probably can be reverted easily on the endpoints where they were just deployed (I'm sure they are using staggered roll-outs). These long term downtime things are probably not issues related to a recent release.

Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

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Post by aix1 »

eduardogarza wrote: post #48

Can someone that's worked at one of these big companies honestly explain how it happens that when these guys are down, it's never for like 10-15 mins ... it's always 1-2+ hours? Do they not have mechanisms in place to revert their migrations and deployments? What goes on behind the scenes during these "outages"?

Part of it observability bias: longer, more widespread outages are more likely to draw signficant attention. This doesn't mean that there aren't also shorter, smaller-scope outages, it's just that we're much less likely to know about them.

For example, if there's a problem that gets caught at the 1% stage of a staged rollout, we're probably not going to find ourselves discussing it on HN.

Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

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Post by aroman »

pgm8705 wrote: post #44
epolanski wrote: post #29

Slightly ot but I've been using OpenAI's GPT 5.4 on Codex and so far finding it more convincing than Claude with Opus 4.6 at maximum thinking for my use cases. I'm more interested in helping with design and architecture rather than having it author tons of code. Keep in mind that OpenAI has a way more generous tier for 20$ than Anthropic's one, and I think you can even use codex for free with the latest models, so gi…

I agree it seems better at complex work. However, I find that it often tries to make ALL work complex. I had a simple bug fix where I knew exactly what the 1-2 line fix was. GPT 5.4 added like 200 LOC and started refactoring the entire function of the app. Was the refactor possibly an improvement? Maybe, but I needed the fix quick so I stopped it and switched to Claude, which did exactly what I was expecting.

Perfectly mirrors my own experience.

Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

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Post by Foobar8568 »

verelo wrote: post #21
avra wrote: post #5

I was wondering the same. They just updated the status page but it was showing green for a while and I couldn't login. https://status.claude.com/

Jesus that’s a bad looking status page lol it’s almost a rainbow

Another Atlassian shit show app https://www.atlassian.com/software/statuspage

Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

ridiculous_leke wrote: post #47
giancarlostoro wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure about LocalLlama, but have you tried LMStudio? If you use Zed it will auto-pickup whatever model you enable on LMStudio. I keep meaning to write a blog post about this for people unaware that you can pair the two pretty easily on a Mac. I mostly use CC but like to test offline models now and then to see how far they've come along.

I use Ollama to run local models but have never used one with CC. Curious what models work best for people.

I use Zed with its Claude Code integration, and if I wanna use any other LLM I use LMStudio which is nice on the Mac, and hosts the APIs for it, Zed knows which models are available which is a plus.
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