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Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#11

Post by rvz » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:26 AM UTC

So Claude decided to take the rest of the day off without notice or giving a scheduled time off?

Many such cases with humans (given that we continue to compare LLMs to humans these days which you cannot)

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#12

Post by jumploops » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:27 AM UTC

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

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#13

Post by winfredJa » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

how can someone run business on top of their APIs

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#14

Post by andai » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

rvz wrote: post #11

So Claude decided to take the rest of the day off without notice or giving a scheduled time off? Many such cases with humans (given that we continue to compare LLMs to humans these days which you cannot)

Introducing: Claude AWOL

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#15

Post by neuronexmachina » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #7

Odd time for Claude to go down since it's not peak work hours.

Maybe they target certain types of infra rollouts for non-peak hours?

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#16

Post by rvz » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #7

Odd time for Claude to go down since it's not peak work hours.

"But humans do it too as they just cool off and check out for the rest of the day."

It's fine for Claude to be unavailable when there is no work at these hours. However, the problem is Claude gave no notice.

At this rate, Claude being unavailable every day is no better than a human on a 9 - 5 working day job.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#17

Post by ahmadyan » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

They are about to lose the second 9

99.02 % uptime

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#18

Post by zackify » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

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

I use openai team plan whenever its down because its down so much lol

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#19

Post by philipbjorge » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC

So happy to have diversified my model providers this past couple of weeks. GPT-5.5 has had no trouble slotting into Opus workloads. Will be fun to try out more of the models as time goes on to build some resiliency into my engineering workflows :).

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

#20

Post by peebee67 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC

I personally broke it by admonishing it for fucking up its last revision to my project.