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Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
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Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
#72I ran into this with my own SaaS a while back.
One day I started getting API errors across requests and initially assumed it was something on my side. After digging into it, the provider I was using was getting overloaded and intermittently failing.
That was the moment I realized relying on a single external service was a risk I hadn’t really planned for.
Now I keep two providers configured: a primary and a secondary. If error rates spike or the API stops responding, the system can fail over instead of the whole product going down.
It added a bit of complexity, but the peace of mind is worth it.
Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
#73Working for me (Desktop + Code) but had a bunch of oauth issues this morning and it's been up and down like a drunken monkey on a trampoline all week, especially around start of biz times in the US.
The Pentagon spat is having a hell of a Streisand Effect on them; DAUs +180% (source: SimilarWeb), paid subs doubling. If past experience is any indicator, it'll settle down as they scale up (or they fall out of the news cycle). Google Trends search interest shows the story: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=claude%2Canthropic&date=...
Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
#74Maybe unrelated but Claude has not only been slow but quality has also been bad the last 3-4 days.
Everything was fine last week then suddenly even the smallest tasks can't be completed correctly
Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
#75Does anyone recall how to code manually? I certainly don't :-)
I feel ashamed writing code while Claude does it way better than me... I've found my forte is at designing systems and making project-level decisions, something that Claude still doesn't do very well.
Forte of the gaps :-) I'm exactly the same.
Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
#76It's really amazing how stability of platforms has gone down in the last year or so.
> 100% of our code is written by AI
Yeah we can tell...
Re: Ask HN: Is Claude down again?
#77Can 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"?
They probably use every ounce of compute available, all at once, because demand > supply. So, there's no fallback mechanism.
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