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Claude outage – Resolved

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Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#21

Not just claude, even grok seems to be down - https://status.x.ai/ If I didn't know any better, I would have said Grok is using Claude behind the hood. But definitely curious now why it’s happening with both these LLM providers around the same time

Don't they just share the colossus 1 data center?

Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#22

Not just claude, even grok seems to be down - https://status.x.ai/ If I didn't know any better, I would have said Grok is using Claude behind the hood. But definitely curious now why it’s happening with both these LLM providers around the same time

Looks like a SpaceX issue then.

Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#23

Demand > supply. It's impressive that customers have not migrated en masse to other providers, given the frequency of these outages. Perhaps switching costs are greater than some would believe. Or, qualitative differences between models continue to exist, despite matching on public benchmarks.

If only every outage was due to “demand”.

Reduced weekly limits, higher prices than competitors, paying well above spot price for space-x compute, all point to supply issues.

Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#24

Demand > supply. It's impressive that customers have not migrated en masse to other providers, given the frequency of these outages. Perhaps switching costs are greater than some would believe. Or, qualitative differences between models continue to exist, despite matching on public benchmarks.

That's quite a reach. More likely someone merged and deployed their vibe-coded PR and is now figuring out how to bring the service back up.

If there's a lot of demand for rollercoaster rides, the rollercoaster will not stop operating; instead the queue of people in front of it will increase.

It's not like a bridge or elevator where we have a certain number of people that can use it, and if one more person joins, the whole structure breaks apart and everybody perishes.

Those guys are running a website that provides an interface for some specific hardware. Just like file hosting providers back in the day selling their terabyte-sized hard disks in 100MB-increments.

Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#26
Cost and reliability are the two reasons why we don't use Claude in our product. Getting close to one nine, that's not something one can build a reliable product upon. We now use OpenAI with Gemini fallback (or vice versa depending on use case). Personally I like Claude and have the 20x Max plan but even there I burned through the whole weekly quota with 3 prompts in less than a day using the new Fable 5.1 which is crazy. Now Opus 5 is down. These two issues are really testing my patience.

Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#27

Demand > supply. It's impressive that customers have not migrated en masse to other providers, given the frequency of these outages. Perhaps switching costs are greater than some would believe. Or, qualitative differences between models continue to exist, despite matching on public benchmarks.

I think a lot of people, like myself, have. Codex paid users have grown a lot in the past few months.

Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#28

Not just claude, even grok seems to be down - https://status.x.ai/ If I didn't know any better, I would have said Grok is using Claude behind the hood. But definitely curious now why it’s happening with both these LLM providers around the same time

Looks like a SpaceX issue then.

Ahh, thanks for pointing it out. But it's rather interesting that Claude recognised the outage quicker on their status page than Grok.

Re: Claude outage – Resolved

#29

Demand > supply. It's impressive that customers have not migrated en masse to other providers, given the frequency of these outages. Perhaps switching costs are greater than some would believe. Or, qualitative differences between models continue to exist, despite matching on public benchmarks.

>> Perhaps switching costs are greater than some would believe.

I haven't switched because there's nothing to switch to that is anywhere as good. I've been making dedicated attempts at using Sol but it falls short, despite what some people claim.

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