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Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by philipbjorge » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC

fooster wrote: post #59

philipbjorge wrote: post #19

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 :).

I found GPT 5.4 terrible. I just tested 5.5 and compared with opus its still not great.

What I found was that I *strongly* preferred Claude Code with its defaults. Codex was almost unusable to me -- It would spit out a 4-5 page plan where it kept repeating itself, where Claude would give me a crisp 1-2 pager I could actually review.

*But* I don't work with the defaults -- I work with my own prompt framework based off of superpowers.

Given sufficient prompt scaffolding, I've found the models relatively interchangeable -- _I might_ be getting some of this for free by basing my own system off of superpowers which is used across various harnesses -- In other words achieving this kind of portability may be a lot harder than it looks and I'm benefiting from other people's work.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by bottlepalm » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:03 AM UTC

Anybody else double fist Codex/Claude? They both code, solve problems, and find bugs in unique ways. I find using both is more useful than using either alone. I have them code review each others work, it's great.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by philipbjorge » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:04 AM UTC

OccamsMirror wrote: post #60

philipbjorge wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might search for a concept like `/handoff` that's in ampcode. I'm sure someone's built a skill for just this.

That's not going to work if the service is down, however.

Ahh good point -- I've handled this by switching my harness to `pi` but recognize that may not be for everyone and doesn't directly address OP's question.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by alasano » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:04 AM UTC

furyofantares wrote: post #27

I don't really mind hopping between claude/codex/glm/kimi except I don't know a good way to resume as session across agent harnesses. Normally I'd just have it write out what it's doing to a file, if I need to transfer context, but if it goes down mid-session that's a no-go. I think people have built tools for this, and of course you could reasonably vibe one yourself, but I don't really trust something like that to…

switch to Pi.dev or any other multi model harness, you can switch between models every message if you feel like it.

Anthropic have blocked usage of your subscription however with third party harnesses.

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by smugma » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:05 AM UTC

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.

We used to describe our startup as having 5 8’s of uptime

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by a_victorp » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:06 AM UTC

datadrivenangel wrote: post #38

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.

From an economics perspective, it makes sense to make it more expensive if you're having trouble keeping up with demand for a service. It'll be tough getting used to because it was so nice and cheap

On the other hand, it was somewhat expected that we would have a correction for the prices. Hopefully after this correction things will be more stable and we won't have to worry too much about future price increases

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by willsmith72 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

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…

But that's just paying per use right, not with the subscription which is way better value

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by willsmith72 » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

edmundsauto wrote: post #58

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.

YMMV. I would still be very happy with Claude if it hard failed on 20% of tasks. You can always come back to it. I say this as someone working for a tech company who does not have to foot the bill (in the >$1k per month bracket) I also experienced and accept the 1990s levels of unreliability, which is my “internet generation”. My first access was lifting a handset and placing on a speaker/mic cradle. Programmers thes…

> If it’s $220 worth of value for $200 - I get it.

Wrong comparison. If a competitor gives you $230 of value for $200, of course you shouldn't pick the $220 one

Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:12 AM UTC

2ndorderthought wrote: post #70

Avicebron wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm either extremely lucky or Dario ran the direct fiber to my house because I have never had it go down in any meaningful way.. Is this just the API and I'm too much of luddite to actually use the API?

Dude dario definitely ran the fiber straight to your place personally. Everything is fine and this is such a good thing.

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Re: Claude.ai and API unavailable [fixed]

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Post by furyofantares » Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 2:18 AM UTC

alasano wrote: post #74

furyofantares wrote: post #27

I don't really mind hopping between claude/codex/glm/kimi except I don't know a good way to resume as session across agent harnesses. Normally I'd just have it write out what it's doing to a file, if I need to transfer context, but if it goes down mid-session that's a no-go. I think people have built tools for this, and of course you could reasonably vibe one yourself, but I don't really trust something like that to…

switch to Pi.dev or any other multi model harness, you can switch between models every message if you feel like it. Anthropic have blocked usage of your subscription however with third party harnesses.

> Anthropic have blocked usage of your subscription however with third party harnesses.

This is the main reason I use different harnesses, but I also expect (could be wrong) codex is better with codex harness (due to training on it's specific tools) than with other harnesses. I use opencode for everything that's not claude/codex.