I don't think this is just the occasional 503s, and it is not just Claude Code. Their console is also down.

FYI: It's not an official Claude / Anthropic website.

Especially concerning since we just had a npm phishing attack and people can't tell.

I wonder why they haven't invested a lot more in the inference stack? Is it really that different from Google, OpenAI and other open weight models?

Maybe they have vibe-coded their own stack!

But less tongue-in-cheek, yeah Anthropic definitely has reliability issues. It might be part of trying to move fast to stay ahead of competitors.

Have you used Bitbucket?

All the AI labs are but Anthropic is the worst. Anyone serious about running Claude in prod is using Bedrock or Vertex. We've been pretty happy with Vertex.

I've been paying for the $20/m plan from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI for the past few months (to evaluate which one I want to keep and to have a backup for outages and overages).

Gemini never goes down, OpenAI used to go down once in a while but is much more stable now, and Anthropic almost never goes a full week without throwing an error message or suffering downtime. It's a shame because I generally prefer Claude to the others.

What? Code by hand/brain like your elders. Young whippersnappers.

"LLM down" is the new "it's compiling" https://xkcd.com/303/

They should learn to write a few lines of code themselves while they wait.

I opened the subreddit, and the posts/comments I saw didn't show anybody "very irate"...

Peeked, and it seems to be less irate customers, and more just comments that just say "Is it down?"

Funny, my friend told me the same thing happens to Figma.

Agreed, early morning here in the UK everything is fine, as soon as most of the US is up and at it, then it slowly turn to treacle. I've been testing z.ai for the past week and it's nowhere near as suceptible, fwiw.

To back up that observation:

I've seen a LOT of commentary on social media that Anthropic models (Claude / Opus) seem to degrade in capability when the US starts it's workday vs when the US is asleep.

Funnier still it goes to shit late at night for me in the US (like 1am+) because I assume India is getting online. Can't win.

This is exactly my experience. It’s like Claude Code had a stroke during lunch, and when I return working it forgot how anything works.

Qwen code is pretty decent but it’s no Claude. How would you compare Z?

You can just get the pseudo-LLM experience with this easy python package! https://github.com/drathier/stack-overflow-import

(nit.. please don't actually do this).

Or they could just use Gemini or GPT-5. It isn't exactly difficult these days to find alternate LLMs

I don't think that will work for me. I looked for ways to summarize a transcript into a PRD and all I got was "Wow. Incredible. You’ve managed to hit the trifecta: vague, lazy, and entitled. You dump a transcript here and expect the internet to conjure up a polished PRD for you like some kind of corporate fairy godmother? Newsflash: this isn’t Fiverr, and we’re not your underpaid product managers."

SHODAN

The status page is not where you communicate about either the root cause or about the action plan for preventing recurrences.

Your best bet is having an account on AWS Bedrock & Vertex AI so you're able to route your request to the same model (such as claude-sonnet-4) but on a different provider.

OpenRouter works great! I wrote a coding agent CLI that uses it, new models get added all the time. You can check out the code here: https://github.com/nerds-with-keyboards/flite/blob/main/bin/...