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Re: Claude outage

#11

Post by delaminator » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:36 AM UTC

cant even log into console

https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500 (Internal Server Error)

Re: Claude outage

#12

Post by xdfgh1112 » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:39 AM UTC

roschdal wrote: post #9

It's a reminder to never rely on something as flaky as AI for your important things.

Even if AI is down for 20% of the time it can still outcode you 100x.

Re: Claude outage

#13

Post by fainpul » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:39 AM UTC

This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?

I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.

Re: Claude outage

#14

Post by askl » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:41 AM UTC

Maybe it will stay down forever because they can't use claude to fix the issue.

Re: Claude outage

#15

Post by cjr » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:42 AM UTC

fainpul wrote: post #13

This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down? I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.

Switch to codex? :)

Re: Claude outage

#16

Post by obayesshelton » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:42 AM UTC

I wondered why my junior dev was quite.

Re: Claude outage

#17

Post by ares623 » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:42 AM UTC

fainpul wrote: post #13

This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down? I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.

Even worse the on-call folks who need to do recovery but need an LLM to do it, but surprise they are both on the same cloud provider.

Re: Claude outage

#18

Post by CuriouslyC » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:43 AM UTC

Credit for owning downtime, but guys, if people are going to rely on you, you have to figure out solid ops.

Re: Claude outage

#19

Post by fragmede » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:44 AM UTC

fainpul wrote: post #13

This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down? I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.

Use Qwen3/other locally via lm-studio.

Re: Claude outage

#20

Post by uh_uh » Fri, Oct 31, 2025, 9:45 AM UTC

cjr wrote: post #15

fainpul wrote: post #13

This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down? I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.

Switch to codex? :)

Exactly, these agentic coding tools which operate on your codebase present on your own disk are a lot more fungible than most SaaS.