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Re: Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

just tried it, can confirm claude.ai is down.

So there was a recent article that I read which said that claude is now trading at a trillion dollars (yes with a T) evaluation in private markets.

We are definitely creating corporations and people which depend on AI companies themselves and the reliability of these tools is certainly a question worth asking. I am seeing quite many downtimes in products like github and claude being shown on Hackernews multiple times.

Is there a life cycle of enshittenification of such products which grow too valuable? What are (are there?) some practical lessons for such scalability that these trillion dollar companies are missing or is it just a dose of reality that such massive corporations can't compete with downtime with even my 7$/yr vps?

My question is, Is this an engineering roadblock with its limits in reality for or a management/entreprise roadblock for low downtime?

Re: Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

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Post by cloud-oak »

neosat wrote: post #19

"We are investigating an issue preventing users from reaching Claude.ai, and will provide an update as soon as possible." Who is We? I thought software engineers were going to be redundant and AI could do it all itself? (not to take anything away from Claude code + Claude both of which I love)

You can always ask Codex to fix Claude, issue solved!

Re: Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

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Post by MavisBacon »

Glad I started using the desktop app which is still working. Gotta say though, all of these difficulties with Claude are making me nervous as I use it a lot for work and really don't like ChatGPT/OpenAI for functional and personal reasons. Zo Computer has been my main fallback when Claude is failing, I'll use one of their many models temporarily within Zo's interface.

Re: Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

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Post by cindyllm »

sebastiennight wrote: post #10
rikthevik wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think we all deserve a little break right now.

I'm experimenting with a simple ritual: if Claude is out, I'm out. I'll just go for a walk outside. And I don't mean "if I can't access Claude to do my work", I mean, just in general - I'll just ping claude.ai from time to time and use Claude's breaks as a break reminder. Why should AI get a breather and not us?

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Re: Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

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Post by [deleted] »

cloud-oak wrote: post #22
neosat wrote: post #19

"We are investigating an issue preventing users from reaching Claude.ai, and will provide an update as soon as possible." Who is We? I thought software engineers were going to be redundant and AI could do it all itself? (not to take anything away from Claude code + Claude both of which I love)

You can always ask Codex to fix Claude, issue solved!

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Re: Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

#28

Post by The_Blade »

neosat wrote: post #19

"We are investigating an issue preventing users from reaching Claude.ai, and will provide an update as soon as possible." Who is We? I thought software engineers were going to be redundant and AI could do it all itself? (not to take anything away from Claude code + Claude both of which I love)

> Who is We?

Adam Neumann is back!

in agent form

Re: Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API

#29

Post by ryanisnan »

152334H wrote: post #24

why does this even occur? if it's merely compute limitations, why not just 429 some requests?

Have you run a system in production? There are a multitude of reasons that a system can go down. There's no indication so far from Anthropic that this was merely compute limitations.
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