The great thing about LLMs being more or less commoditized is switching is so easy.
I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going.
It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!
shermantanktop 11 minutes ago [-]
It’s not a moat, it’s a tiny groove on the sidewalk.
I’ve experienced the same. Even guide markdown files that work well for one model or vendor will work reasonably well for the other.
hk__2 21 minutes ago [-]
Their GitHub issues are wild; random people are posting the same useless "bug reports" over and over multiple times per minute.
Gives you a good window into a vibe coder's mentality. They do not care about anything except what they want to get done. If something is in the way, they will just try to brute force it until it works, not giving a duck if they are being an inconvenience to others. They're not aware of existing guidelines/conventions/social norms and they couldn't care less.
egeozcan 3 minutes ago [-]
Could it be that you're creating a stereotype in your head and getting angry about it?
People say these things against any group they dislike. It's so much that these days it feels like most of the social groups are defined by outsiders with the things they dislike about them.
Forgeties79 7 minutes ago [-]
I am starting to get concerned about how much “move fast break things” has basically become the average person’s mantra in the US. Or at least it feels that way.
monsieurbanana 16 minutes ago [-]
Wow are these submitted automatically by claude code? I'm not comfortable with the level of details they have (user's anthropic email, full path of the project they were working on, stack traces...)
petters 26 seconds ago [-]
How could they be? Claude was down
tobyjsullivan 9 minutes ago [-]
Scanning a few. Some are definitely written by AI but most seem genuinely human (or at least, not claude).
Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.
embedding-shape 13 minutes ago [-]
Definitively some automation involved, no way the typical user of Claude Code (no offense) would by default put so much details into reporting an issue, especially users who don't seem to understand it's Anthropic's backend that is the issue (given the status code) rather than the client/harness.
philipwhiuk 13 minutes ago [-]
No, but they are submitted by the sort of people who will use AI to write the GitHub issue details
jscheel 2 minutes ago [-]
and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet"
atonse 20 minutes ago [-]
This is the kind of abuse that will cause them to just close GitHub issues.
Or they'll have to put something in the system prompt to handle this special case where it first checks for existing bugs and just upvotes it, rather than creating a new one.
orphea 7 minutes ago [-]
I'm not too empathic to Anthropic. They did it to themselves by hyping AI and attracting that kind of people.
And it's not like they have been taking care of issues anyway.
echelon 15 minutes ago [-]
The automation of the SWE.
ddmma 16 minutes ago [-]
should enable some kind of agent automation
nerdjon 7 minutes ago [-]
There has to be some sort of automation making these issues, to many of them are identical but posted by different people.
Also love how many have the “I searched for issues” checked which is clearly a lie.
Does Claude code make issue reports automatically? (And then how exactly would it be doing that if Anthropic was down when the use of LLM in the report is obvious )
cing 6 minutes ago [-]
Github issues will be the real social network for AI agents, no humans allowed!
acedTrex 6 minutes ago [-]
If this overly impacts you as an "engineer" beyond "oh thats minorly annoying i'll go do it another way" please do some soul searching.
jwr 24 minutes ago [-]
I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.
sjm-lbm 18 minutes ago [-]
As best as I can tell, there was less than 10 minutes from the last successful request I made and when the downtime was added to their status page - and I'm not particularly crazy with my usage or anything, the gap could have been less than that.
Honestly, that seems okay to me. Certainly better than what AWS usually does.
what do you mean it's right there. Judging by the Github issues it only took them 10 minutes to add the issue message.
wild_egg 19 minutes ago [-]
It took them about 15 minutes to update that page
jMyles 18 minutes ago [-]
It appeared there like 5 minutes ago; it was down for at least 20 before that.
That's 20 minutes of millions of people visiting the status page, seeing green, and then spending that time resetting their context, looking at their system and network configs, etc.
It's not a huge deal, but for $200/month it'd be nice if, after the first two-thousand 500s went out (which I imagine is less than 10 seconds), the status page automatically went orange.
14 minutes ago [-]
cainxinth 12 minutes ago [-]
I've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has a lot of seemingly false positive errors. It will claim an error occurred but then work normally. I genuinely like Claude the best but its performance does not inspire confidence.
embedding-shape 14 minutes ago [-]
For folks who have latest version (0.4.1) LM Studio installed, I just noticed they added endpoints for being compatible with Claude Code, maybe this is an excellent moment to play around with local models, if you have the GPU for it. zai-org/glm-4.7-flash (Q4) is supposed to be OK-ish, and should fit within 24GB VRAM. It's not great, but always fun to experiment, and if the API stays down, you have some time to waste :)
emsign 11 minutes ago [-]
Big models are single points of failure. I don't want to rely on those for my business, security, wealth, health and governance.
Why do people have to learn the same lessons over and over again? What makes them forget or blind to the obvious pitfalls?
rowanseymour 7 minutes ago [-]
Aren't most developers accessing Anthropic's models via vscode/github? It takes seconds to switch to a different model. Today I'm using Gemini.
bergheim 11 minutes ago [-]
Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab.
It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular.
I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts?
To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.
nerdjon 59 seconds ago [-]
Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.
A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.
Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.
This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.
2 minutes ago [-]
zamadatix 6 minutes ago [-]
The usual impetus is that the official status pages habitually under report and sharing the status page showing the best information gives a basis to form a place to have discussion about where/how/why it was down. Unfortunately, many seem to take the other interpretation instead and said discussion often ends up being low quality in a self fulfilling loop of reasons.
The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.
emsign 9 minutes ago [-]
I don't use it but I'd like to know even if it's just entertainment value. But I can imgine people who intend to use it learn something from it: redundancy must be part of their strategy like you said.
zenexer 9 minutes ago [-]
It’s more about the ensuing discussion.
thehamkercat 5 minutes ago [-]
Everybody who uses anything knows that it's down
So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?
It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you're being overly critical, yes
romanovcode 7 minutes ago [-]
Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?
i just checked; no version 5 models listed in claude code yet
ddmma 16 minutes ago [-]
is back online
world2vec 24 minutes ago [-]
Their website seems fine to me but CC is throwing API error 500.
-edit- CC is back up on my machine
yoavsha1 25 minutes ago [-]
Both the CC api and their website -- hopefully related to the rumored Sonnet 5 release
eleventhborn 25 minutes ago [-]
That will be one strange way to release a model.
yoavsha1 24 minutes ago [-]
I mean, can you expect a vibecoding company to do stuff with 0 downtime? They brought the models down and are now panicking at HQ since there's no one to bring them back up
nicpottier 22 minutes ago [-]
This made me laugh only because I imagine there could possibly be some truth to it. This is the world we are in. Maybe they all loaded codex to fix their deploy? ;)
copilot_king 23 minutes ago [-]
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kachapopopow 23 minutes ago [-]
it is not, sounds like an issue with AWS
8cvor6j844qw_d6 22 minutes ago [-]
OpenClaw agents on Anthropic API taking an unscheduled coffee break.
25 minutes ago [-]
xd1936 21 minutes ago [-]
I was trying to set up OpenClaw and broke it. My bad guys.
yodon 9 minutes ago [-]
Status page reports it's back up
deanc 15 minutes ago [-]
Probably everyone refreshing to see if Sonnet5 is out yet :)
Fortunately before working hours on the west coast so it shouldn't impact that many people.
hackeman300 21 minutes ago [-]
I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours
gsibble 3 minutes ago [-]
Yikes man.
esskay 22 minutes ago [-]
Ah yes, because only the west coast of a single country are the priority for a globally distributed company.
hk__2 21 minutes ago [-]
HN users assuming the US are the only country in the World, episode #53985902582.
atonse 18 minutes ago [-]
Only one half of the US :)
Us east coasters here are having a chuckle (what else can we do? we can't get work done while Claude is down... I'll be damned if I have to type in code letter by letter ever again!).
throwup238 15 minutes ago [-]
We all have a chuckle when AWS east is down.
mike-cardwell 19 minutes ago [-]
Just a healthy reminder that places outside of the USA exist.
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I use Claude Code via the VS Code extension. When I got a couple of 500 errors just now I simply copy pasted my last instructions into Codex and kept going.
It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!
I’ve experienced the same. Even guide markdown files that work well for one model or vendor will work reasonably well for the other.
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues
People say these things against any group they dislike. It's so much that these days it feels like most of the social groups are defined by outsiders with the things they dislike about them.
Anecdata: I read five and only found one was AI. Your sampling may vary.
Or they'll have to put something in the system prompt to handle this special case where it first checks for existing bugs and just upvotes it, rather than creating a new one.
And it's not like they have been taking care of issues anyway.
Also love how many have the “I searched for issues” checked which is clearly a lie.
Does Claude code make issue reports automatically? (And then how exactly would it be doing that if Anthropic was down when the use of LLM in the report is obvious )
Honestly, that seems okay to me. Certainly better than what AWS usually does.
what do you mean it's right there. Judging by the Github issues it only took them 10 minutes to add the issue message.
That's 20 minutes of millions of people visiting the status page, seeing green, and then spending that time resetting their context, looking at their system and network configs, etc.
It's not a huge deal, but for $200/month it'd be nice if, after the first two-thousand 500s went out (which I imagine is less than 10 seconds), the status page automatically went orange.
Why do people have to learn the same lessons over and over again? What makes them forget or blind to the obvious pitfalls?
It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular.
I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts?
To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.
A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.
Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.
This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.
The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.
So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?
It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you're being overly critical, yes
-edit- CC is back up on my machine
Us east coasters here are having a chuckle (what else can we do? we can't get work done while Claude is down... I'll be damned if I have to type in code letter by letter ever again!).