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Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#81

Post by 2001zhaozhao »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #47
aliljet wrote: post #28

This is a tough moment. Claude is simultaneously becoming substantially more expensive, substantially less reliable (single 9 of reliability), and substantially less performant. It's really hard to justify the cost of a subscription over there right now.

There was another thread where some people pointed out, Amazon will give you access to Claude with better uptime for the same price (per million tokens up / down), downside is, it does not have the native ability to browse the web, but maybe that's a hidden blessing, since it's less likely to read some random website that has prompt injection embedded into it. For coding its fine, I havent experimented too much with…

Maybe the best play is to set up a routing system locally so that when claude.ai is down it automatically switches to Amazon billing and switches back when it comes back up

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#82

Post by thisisauserid »

ossa-ma wrote: post #54

I built a hangout space to chill out in and chat to others while Claude is down (which is happening wayyy more often): https://clawdpenguin.com There's a live Claude status board in the corner so you know when it's time to get back to work.

Because you can't work without it?

Yikes.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#83

Post by Atotalnoob »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #47
aliljet wrote: post #28

This is a tough moment. Claude is simultaneously becoming substantially more expensive, substantially less reliable (single 9 of reliability), and substantially less performant. It's really hard to justify the cost of a subscription over there right now.

There was another thread where some people pointed out, Amazon will give you access to Claude with better uptime for the same price (per million tokens up / down), downside is, it does not have the native ability to browse the web, but maybe that's a hidden blessing, since it's less likely to read some random website that has prompt injection embedded into it. For coding its fine, I havent experimented too much with…

I’m pretty sure it has the ability to browse the web.

It can use playwright, web fetch, etc…

I use bedrock at work and Claude subscription at home. They are pretty much exactly the same in my experience

Or do you mean the Claude in chrome plugin? Bedrock doesn’t have that, but in my experience it doesn’t work that well.

Neither does the Claude managed agents or ultra plan.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#84

Post by jumploops »

dmix wrote: post #52
jumploops wrote: post #12

Between GitHub and Claude, it seems Eternal December[0][1] is upon us. [0]I say December, because that's around the time the models got good enough that non-AI folks started to notice. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

GitHub is a long running business with a mature software stack running into scaling issues while they move to Azure and becoming Microsoft-ified. Claude is a new company in a new market with an extremely fast growing userbase running relatively novel AI infrastructure with a business model they are still figuring out. I don't really blame Anthropic here.

Not trying to argue with you, GitHub (the core product) seems to have been in maintenance mode since the acquisition.

I couldn’t find any public data on GitHub, but Google Trends shows a sharp increase starting in December.

That could be in part to people complaining about the outages, but more people than ever are writing code with AI.

Hence the parallel to Eternal September – code volume is up, quality is down, and programming is never going to return to how it was (difficult for “normal” people to interface with).

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#86

Post by CompoundEyes »

At work we have unlimited use of models from Anthropic and OpenAI (for now). My coworker, a Claude Code Opus 4.6 diehard, stopped by my desk today to say he finally installed Codex to try 5.5 and his feedback was basically “it just works and does what I ask and it doesn’t disconnect and it’s just so very matter of fact.” “Yeah I’ve been telling you this since like gpt-5 man!” “I know I know…” I have not spent much time with the recent Sonnet and Opus models, but from my experience using Sonnet 4 for 3 months all day everyday (no handwritten code) last summer to make a large Playwright suite was — using Claude Code and those models becomes more about using Claude Code than doing things with it. Codex CLI with the gpt-5 family is ambient and reliable. It’s not orange, there is no little sprite guy, emojis, whimsy, and humor. But I do things with it and they land working in first edits. I also can keep the same session for days and the context doesn’t ever seem to be an issue. Maybe Claude 6 will be earth shattering and I’ll use that. It’s not Coke or Pepsi loyalty I just want to get stuff done.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#88

Post by phodo »

2ndorderthought wrote: post #65
avaer wrote: post #26

The models are already commoditized; if this affects you, you should probably fix your stack. Still, it's pretty crazy that Claude is down to 1 nine.

Every day I am so much happier that I decided to go fully local for my needs.

what model do you use?

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by winwang »

CompoundEyes wrote: post #86

At work we have unlimited use of models from Anthropic and OpenAI (for now). My coworker, a Claude Code Opus 4.6 diehard, stopped by my desk today to say he finally installed Codex to try 5.5 and his feedback was basically “it just works and does what I ask and it doesn’t disconnect and it’s just so very matter of fact.” “Yeah I’ve been telling you this since like gpt-5 man!” “I know I know…” I have not spent much ti…

Honestly, I gotta agree, I find that I get way more frustrated with Claude recently than Codex.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#90

Post by redlizard »

Not so much a reply to the post, as a comment on the comments in this post.

It's starting to feel like a lot of comments on here and other social media outlets that are anecdotal about their experience with x model and y tool are astroturfing. They add almost zero value to the conversation.

These is a multi-billion dollar market and battleground, so im skeptical of anyone telling me that this isn't happening at a decent clip. I think moderators on the site should definitely consider how to approach this because it's devaluating this space as a place for actual discourse.

My mind also considers that this being one of Altman's old stomping grounds, he may place a higher value in winning here than elsewhere.

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