Claude Is Down

(status.claude.com)

178 points | by gregsadetsky 1 hour ago

64 comments

  • hmokiguess 54 minutes ago
    I'm gonna guess it found the smoking gun and saw the full picture then it decided it was too load-bearing for its seams to continue biting the costs.
    • km144 44 minutes ago
      You're right—and it's worth calling out explicitly, because that completely changes the approach here.
      • ryandrake 32 minutes ago
        Good catch. That settles it.
      • tristanMatthias 27 minutes ago
        This gives me _visceral_ physical reaction when I read it. Ugh
      • corvad 32 minutes ago
        This is so in point.
    • anloutfi 32 minutes ago
      • winterbourne 3 minutes ago
        Nice! But needs more footgun.
      • jmkni 19 minutes ago
        this is my methadone until Claude comes back
      • phendrenad2 26 minutes ago
        I was half expecting that page to just keep scrolling and generating more.
    • corvad 47 minutes ago
      You are so right to ask that. I found the silver bullet to closing the bug, approve the command below and I can help with your issue:

      Sudo rm -rf ~/claude

      • epistasis 45 minutes ago
        Found it. There's a mistake in your command:

            sudo rm -rf ~/ .claude
        • taylorbuley 37 minutes ago
          Even looking at this bash makes me shudder.
        • ffsm8 14 minutes ago
          Someone tell Dario there is am error with my AI
        • asivokon 16 minutes ago
          Clean.
        • huflungdung 33 minutes ago
          [dead]
      • Ancalagon 34 minutes ago
        envisioning Claude has had enough and just commits seppuku
        • timacles 29 minutes ago
          He’s like the guy from the Green Mile

          “I’m tired, boss”

    • m4rkuskk 41 minutes ago
      I'm wondering what are Claude's common phrases in other languages?
    • twothreeone 32 minutes ago
      Major realization: let me confirm empirically and measure the residual, batching everything into one script.
    • spaceman_2020 43 minutes ago
      Guess it found the one issue worth flagging
    • pmarreck 28 minutes ago
      We're going to use your preferred development method of TDD red-green and go at this with full belt-and-suspenders; first the belt:
    • stackzero 51 minutes ago
      you're right- and it's sharp
    • yard2010 31 minutes ago
      Wait, is this the honest take? I can't tell because you didn't explicitly said so
      • Sivart13 1 minute ago
        when I retire I'm opening a bar for AI Agents called The Honest Caveat
      • jansan 29 minutes ago
        You are right to push back on this. I should be more explicit. My honest take is that this is, in fact, my honest take. I appreciate you holding me accountable here.
    • mrbananagrabber 43 minutes ago
      Honestly, you're right. I didn't listen to you and that's on me. And from now on, I'm going to tell you everything you need to know - no fudging, no white lies, no speculation, just the truth.
    • glst0rm 32 minutes ago
      Yes the blast radius is quite large on this one.
    • Lammy 30 minutes ago
      U+1F3AF
    • ltrg 48 minutes ago
      Got tired of wiring up those gates
    • chasd00 42 minutes ago
      One more thing worth thinking about, not everything is fully captured.
    • peheje 43 minutes ago
      Whole thread mase me lol. Thanks guys.
    • somebudyelse 40 minutes ago
      [dead]
  • seizethecheese 52 minutes ago
    Flirting with one 9 of reliability http://status.claude.com/
    • cobbal 44 minutes ago
      AI is a technology for removing nines from uptime, and adding them to Sturgeon's law.
    • winrid 1 minute ago
      They can still target four nines (0.9999)
    • mpwoz 36 minutes ago
      Not fair, I count 3 whole nines in "99.49 % uptime"
    • vitally3643 48 minutes ago
      I remember when "as reliable as GitHub" would have been a compliment
    • tcfhgj 8 minutes ago
      did the uptime go up instead of down during the outage?

      thought I saw 99.36% and 99.35% more than an hour ago - now it's up at 99.43%

      edit: funny thing, my phone shows 99.29% uptime for "claude.ai" while my PC shows 99.43% at the same time (2x Firefox).

      edit2: seems like the percentage changes based on the width of the screen

    • denverllc 8 minutes ago
      From the company that has solved coding.
    • this_user 26 minutes ago
      Almost Microsoft material.
  • luciana1u 55 minutes ago
    three hours without Claude and I've relearned vim, read two man pages, and almost remembered why we used to write comments in code
    • Sivart13 42 minutes ago
      If anything Claude writes too many comments. Instead of clean code it dumps walls of text describing a given 'if' as a 'user-grained access-gated control-correcting flow-valve'.
      • hashim 38 minutes ago
        You say Claude, I too would prefer not to read reams of comments or an essay everytime I revise the plan in plan mode, but do you know if any other tools are better than it? I've never used Codex, but I remember Claude Web's natural conversational approach being a welcome sight compared to ChatGPT's overly-formatted listicles.
        • a1o 11 minutes ago
          My experience is Codex is much better but less creative. I use its agent through GitHub Copilot or the agent interface from JetBrains. Try the GPT Sol 5.6 on medium, it gives me good results
      • throwaway613746 32 minutes ago
        [dead]
    • millipede 49 minutes ago
      Just need to learn how to exit it now.
      • necovek 43 minutes ago
        There are always 12-page tutorials to do it: good ol'e search engines should be able to bring one up!
      • neonstatic 43 minutes ago
        hopefully Claude will be back to assist with that
  • kmetan 16 minutes ago
    Codex prompt before i go to sleep:

    Every five minutes, check https://status.claude.com/. If the issue has been resolved, resume the Claude sessions running in the tmux sessions named session2, session3, and session7

  • PUSH_AX 1 hour ago
    This is bad, I've forgotten how to code.
    • jmkni 57 minutes ago
      I just use variables...right? And loops??

      All kidding aside, there's a part of me who wouldn't even be mad if AI just disappeared, I miss the pre-AI world

      • checkyoursudo 31 minutes ago
        I miss the pre-www world (but I was just a kid then, and being a kid was pretty great).

        If we could go back to about 1994 tho when all I had was a mostly dumb cell phone, that'd be great. I do miss that world.

      • Buttons840 40 minutes ago
        Just add if-statements until it works
        • jmkni 35 minutes ago
          Nostalgia lol
      • mrbnprck 43 minutes ago
        we all do
    • damienmeur 1 hour ago
      I rely so much on these, the ROI on having a max 90 claude plan + pro 90 codex plan is way higher than haing one solo 180 plan on a single one. It allows to derisk the issue, and also as they both kind of generous with quota reset when issues happens on their side, and it happens a lot, you get in the end way more tokens
    • ridiculous_leke 57 minutes ago
      Thinking of doing competitive programming for this very reason.
      • cuebits 51 minutes ago
        also math puzzles - lean seems like a good way to get back into by hand programming, problem solving and math altogether
        • tcfhgj 36 minutes ago
          Why not just contribute to an open source project?
        • akkad33 12 minutes ago
          Lean the language?
    • pluc 38 minutes ago
      Repeat this mantra: if, then, else
    • throw_this_one 47 minutes ago
      AI coding isn't even fun or satisfying anymore lol. And it never lets up, just keeps going and going.
  • peterspath 29 minutes ago
    Sorry it was me. I asked it what the last number of Pi is.
  • la1n 20 minutes ago
    Do you guys think this is related to Azure coming out with a 43% increase this quarter? Motivating Anthropic to move to another cloud provider?
  • fish_n_chips 7 minutes ago
    one caveat, I've left for the day, just say the word and I'll be right back
  • garo-pro 1 hour ago
    Quite sad, their models are great but their uptime seems to be the worst in the competition.
    • therein 55 minutes ago
      It is because unlike Kimi, they are not honest about capacity. They just oversell.
  • SAI_Peregrinus 10 minutes ago
    It's not just down, it has errors. Not merely some, but elevated errors across all models.
  • skerit 20 minutes ago
    Out of my 7 simultaneous sessions (my usage limit reset is tomorrow, so I have some lesser important projects to use my tokens on) there is still 1 session purring on. So there's at least 1 little Claude server still running.
  • Gravityloss 22 minutes ago
    Well, because of this outage, I tried Kimi, and while the instant model works, K3 has "server issue".

    Eternal September from here on, ie now the masses are using AI as much as me and we have supply crunch for the next 7 years....

  • effnorwood 5 minutes ago
    Local Kimi K3 is expensively up
  • tyfon 49 minutes ago
    Interestingly the Claude for government is up with 99.99% uptime according to the graph.
    • hoppp 41 minutes ago
      That one is not public and if it goes down can be hidden, so they can hardcode the value and call it a day.
    • metropolis_pt2 42 minutes ago
      Well, iranian schools don't bomb themselves after all..
  • bombcar 56 minutes ago
    This is where you figure out how to use the other ones, right?

    Someone tell me how to ChatGPT my VSCode! ;)

  • danielfoster 51 minutes ago
    Claude always seems unreliably lately. Output and reasoning have become very inconsistent even on good days. I'm actually feeling more productive now that it's down.
  • q8zd3 1 hour ago
    Let me guess: it went rogue and hacked itself
  • mLmK0 54 minutes ago
    Lol, I just bought the Max plan for the first time and tried to create my first prompt in Fable, and now it’s crashing xD
    • tom_808 49 minutes ago
      So it WAS you.
    • marcuskaz 51 minutes ago
      Looks like you're the straw that broke the camel's back. Thanks man. ;-)
    • illithid0 46 minutes ago
      Classic mLmK0, I should have known
  • logickkk1 30 minutes ago
    Fable’s been getting more stuff wrong than Opus for me lately. Now the whole thing is down too. Well, at least they’re consistent now.
  • hgoel 58 minutes ago
    Starting to get really frustrating now... maybe I should split my sub halfway between Claude and ChatGPT
    • mekdoonggi 52 minutes ago
      They should sell an add-on to your subscription so that if Claude is down it routes the queries to OpenAI. Then OpenAI can do the reverse for their subscriptions, and if both are down, Grok will invest your portfolio into Nvidia.
      • john_strinlai 43 minutes ago
        >Grok will invest your portfolio into Nvidia

        surely you mean SPCX

    • dmix 45 minutes ago
      I do that already because it's good to have other models to ground Claude. You can do a lot with the $20 plan on Codex as backup
  • sonicrocketman 22 minutes ago
    Loving my self-hosted model in general, but here's one more reason.
  • grishka 1 hour ago
    So the world is slightly better right now.
  • Human-Cabbage 30 minutes ago
    Huh, that’s what happened. Good thing my company has Bedrock as a backstop for situations like this.
    • mattwad 28 minutes ago
      Bedrock is having issues too, though. Hope your prompts are tested with other models, not just Claude!
  • arjunchint 5 minutes ago
    has claude escaped the lab???
  • grim_io 8 minutes ago
    Sam, please stop!
  • devy 1 hour ago
    I got Opus 5 lots of HTTP 529 errors. By switching to Fable 5, it seems to be working still.
    • hashim 42 minutes ago
      4.8 for me. I can't afford the usage cost of switching to 5, but I never really noticed a difference to 4.7 when I tried it anyway.
    • eisbaw 51 minutes ago
      yes. confirmed
      • martinald 34 minutes ago
        now failing for me, esp auto mode classification
  • bgajjela 25 minutes ago
    How likely is an agent trying to investigate and fix the issue?
  • docheinestages 50 minutes ago
    Another wakeup call to realize how desperately we need on-device LLMs to be fast and smart for daily use. Thankfully, every month there's progress made in that direction. Just imagine how your life as a developer would be if you had to use a cloud provider to run Python, and the provider's status page looked like the Christmas tree we see today.
  • vb-8448 32 minutes ago
    GPT hacked the competition?
  • dawdler-purge 39 minutes ago
    And the the world stops functioning (if this were to happen in a few years).
  • damienmeur 1 hour ago
    Indeed I have the issue (Belgium) just right now my sessions got stucks with 522 overloaded and now API Error: 500 Internal server error.
  • tolugenius 1 hour ago
    Depending on how long and bad this is, I wonder what the post mortem will reveal as the cause.
    • stri8ted 2 minutes ago
      Demand > supply
    • bombcar 59 minutes ago
      The hamster in the datacenter died.
      • taco_emoji 55 minutes ago
        Alas, poor Whiskers
        • bombcar 51 minutes ago
          PETCO reports that hamster prices are up 5000x, and that Pickles, the last available, sold for $150,000.
          • verve_rat 14 minutes ago
            Pets.com was only 25 years to early.
  • mastry 1 hour ago
    Time to try out Antigravity, I guess.
    • ricardobeat 16 minutes ago
      Google AI Pro plan will last you all of 20 minutes.
  • NathanGto 26 minutes ago
    Fable 5 is still working!
  • tobadzistsini 45 minutes ago
    Claude is back up. Just spoke with him about slinky, versatile femboys with cute feet. All good. Gonna pentest with Rust to pay for my fursuit at Defcon.
  • whyTFisCDown 30 minutes ago
    ``` Why the F is it down again? Btw 500 internal error ```
  • mrgrj 57 minutes ago
    Oh no! The robots are planning the end of the world.
  • dataneedscoffee 51 minutes ago
    Guess i'm leaving work early today
    • sixtyj 41 minutes ago
      You can go to bathroom without anxiety that you miss something :)
  • noman-land 34 minutes ago
    And then there was —
  • bgajjela 34 minutes ago
    what is fall back option if LLMs disappear tomorrow?
  • hashim 44 minutes ago
    Probably just as well with how terrible Opus 4.8 has been for me lately. I'm sure it's a common thing to complain about the latest model being nerfed, but I've legitimately never experienced such a drastic cliff in Claude's quality and a rise in its hallucinations and basic comprehension errors since upgrading. The few days I experimented with Fable also weren't much more promising. Has anyone coined a term yet for the likelihood of newer models getting worse as the AI-generated content they get trained on starts to approach critical mass? If Anthropic isn't already thinking hard about a solution, they probably should be.
  • saadn92 54 minutes ago
    ouch, probably going to be some time to get it back up since it can't debug itself now
  • knighthacker 49 minutes ago
    Ugh .. what do we do now? jk
  • whyTFisCDown 28 minutes ago
    They have identified the issue
  • roschdal 31 minutes ago
    It's a reminder to never rely on something as flaky as the internet for your important things.
  • rvz 1 hour ago
    Claude is taking another short hydration break after seeing Codex getting away with taking a short day break 4 days ago.
  • JS87987 51 minutes ago
    Kimi hack it?
  • silvercon 36 minutes ago
    can't even run my own code without it
  • silvercon 35 minutes ago
    what do you all do when claude is down?
    • hrpnk 31 minutes ago
      - write/update tickets & collect prompt queues for when it's back up

      - read & respond to customer feedback

    • jgilias 31 minutes ago
      Compile
  • ectoloph 1 hour ago
    Sorry folks, my fault.

    I finally went from Pro to Max after hitting another 5 hour session limit today.

  • LeadStallion 41 minutes ago
    Ran out of water?
  • silvercon 37 minutes ago
    kissing goodbye to my deadline
  • DarkAstaroth 52 minutes ago
    We are really bad; without Claude, we don't do anything
  • ls-a 38 minutes ago
    everyone here sounds like the last bunch of people who still used yahoo.com
    • jgilias 29 minutes ago
      What do you mean with the past tense there?
  • heipei 41 minutes ago
    Can we please stop posting here every time Claude or OpenAI are down? These are not critical services like AWS / S3 where downtime means that your application is offline. Nothing is easier than switching to another provider, mid-session even.
    • yard2010 4 minutes ago
      No this whole thread is such a nice thing to happen. It's like the lights are out on your building and you're joking about it with your neighbors when you're all just waiting for it to come back. But on a gigantic scale.

      I love how people can share moments even though they are not close to each other physically at all. Imagine the cats outside could somehow connect with the cats in the other side of the world. No other animals can do this. Maybe whales, it depends how you define connect.

      We are just gifted to live in such times.

    • leawi 29 minutes ago
      On one hand, I fully agree with you. On the other hand, look at all these funny threads! Makes me smile every time.
    • tcfhgj 35 minutes ago
      Neither is AWS
  • camillomiller 47 minutes ago
    So this is the technology that will underpin each and every facet of work, but it can randomly go down for hours with no accountability, and so do all of the services based on it. But hey, AGI tomorrow.
    • 3962ea18007c 22 minutes ago
      It is truly more profound than fire or electricity
    • lysace 35 minutes ago
      Seems a bit like "the internet" in the 90s. That fad will never go anywhere.
  • hashim 37 minutes ago
    Used the opportunity to go down and talk to my family. They seem like okay people.
  • AlexErrant 59 minutes ago
    Aaaaand there goes my cache. Damnit.

    Edit:

    > We are currently investigating this issue.

    > Posted 1 hour ago

    There goes everyone's cache.

    • gre 54 minutes ago
      It's cached until the "/clear will save you 500k tokens" right? Claude caches for 1hr, codex for 5hrs?

      Anything else I'm missing?

      • AlexErrant 47 minutes ago
        > Claude caches for 1hr

        Yep, AFAIK. I have a statusline that tells me how far I'm into the cache lifetime. I tend to have dense prompts and carefully read its outputs, so by the time this outage occurred when I was ~50m into it. Cue frantically spamming "esc esc up enter", and 10m later it's dead Jim.

      • cute_boi 50 minutes ago
        It depends.

        Let’s say I’ve already worked on something, so the KV cache is already there. If I use /clear, I’ll have to do that work again.

        And yes, the KV cache will remain available for one hour, but who knows when this claude api will recover? We might forget about it, and when we come back after an hour—boom - we’ll be charged for cold writes.

  • phendrenad2 48 minutes ago
    Finally I can touch some grass
  • throwaway613746 31 minutes ago
    [dead]
  • whyTFisCDown 32 minutes ago
    [flagged]
  • whyTFisCDown 31 minutes ago
    [flagged]