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Re: Anthropic is Down

#61

Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab. It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular. I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts? To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not inv…

The usual impetus is that the official status pages habitually under report and sharing the status page showing the best information gives a basis to form a place to have discussion about where/how/why it was down. Unfortunately, many seem to take the other interpretation instead and said discussion often ends up being low quality in a self fulfilling loop of reasons.

The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.

Re: Anthropic is Down

#62
post #16

Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Github issues will be the real social network for AI agents, no humans allowed!

Re: Anthropic is Down

#63

Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab. It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular. I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts? To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not inv…

Everybody who uses anything knows that it's down

So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?

It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you being overly critical, yes

Re: Anthropic is Down

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post #39
post #16

Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Gives you a good window into a vibe coder's mentality. They do not care about anything except what they want to get done. If something is in the way, they will just try to brute force it until it works, not giving a duck if they are being an inconvenience to others. They're not aware of existing guidelines/conventions/social norms and they couldn't care less.

Could it be that you're creating a stereotype in your head and getting angry about it?

People say these things against any group they dislike. It's so much that these days it feels like most of the social groups are defined by outsiders with the things they dislike about them.

Re: Anthropic is Down

#68

Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab. It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular. I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts? To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not inv…

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Re: Anthropic is Down

#69
post #16

Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet"

Re: Anthropic is Down

#70

Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab. It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular. I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts? To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not inv…

Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.

A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.

Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.

This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.

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