Claude outage

https://status.claude.com/incidents/s5f75jhwjs6g

91•stuartmemo•7h ago

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csomar•7h ago

Is this news? Claude API is frequently down at frequent times of the day although it got better recently (coincided with them heavily restricting usage).

johnisgood•7h ago

They did heavily restrict usage, even on a Pro account, according to my experiences. I love Claude but come on. :(

At least their customer service is nice. They forwarded my messages to the dev team and they implemented a lot of things I have suggested.

latch•7h ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45769901

sometimes_all•7h ago

It's usually down about at least once a day for me anyway. Previously it used to be down during beginning and end of US work times. Now that they've geographically spread out their servers, it's down at random times instead.

TBH I'm not so irritated by this. It keeps me grounded, and saves me from being unconsciously outsourcing all the hard work of thought process to AI.

danielbln•6h ago

I spend 10h/day in Claude Code and I don't remember the last time it was unavailable to me, maybe a couple of months ago? I suspect this is highly dependant on location and timezone, but at least from within Central Europe it has been smooth sailing (apart from this morning...)

jryan49•7h ago

Has anyone else pretty much stopped using AI at this point? The only thing I use it for to help generate README's or Javadocs, and then heavily edit them. I had it in my workflow and it burned me so many times I just went back to google and stackoverflow.

Hamuko•7h ago

Never really started. Really the only properly good AI thing that I’ve used is AI autocompletions, which are generally higher quality than the traditional ones that I’ve used. Not that it’s perfect and at least the one in Xcode has hallucinated on me.

dataengineer56•7h ago

If I have a question for SO these days then I ask Claude instead and tell it to use SO where possible. It's preferable to actually asking it on SO which often results in the question being edited, downvoted and closed by someone with an anime child profile picture.

a5c11•6h ago

What was the question like? "How to print a decimal in C"? Valuable questions aren't downvoted. If you ask about something that could be found on the first Google page, then no surprise you are being downvoted.

sanex•5h ago

You sound like an SO moderator

dataengineer56•4h ago

I asked a novel question, well-written and clear, and a "subject matter expert" decided it was too similar to another question (it wasn't), so they defaced it, downvoted it and closed it.

Stack Overflow is dying, it's extremely difficult to get new questions through. Even if they survive moderation then they're unlikely to get answers.

M4v3R•7h ago

I'm sure some people did, by I personally use them every day - for coding tasks, for language translation, for research, current events (Grok is really good at this thanks to being connected to the X real-time data), for day-to-day questions (like my daughter asking me what's that Pokemon called) and so on.

LogicHound•7h ago

I use it to generate me example code e.g. how do I do <thing> in <programming language> using <library>.

I've also had it suggest solutions e.g. "This C++/OpenGL code doesn't run in wayland can you suggest some solutions".

Other stuff like generating tests is hit and miss.

dim13•6h ago

I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.

snowfield•4h ago

I use it quite often. But just small stuff like simple automations, userscripts, docker config that sort of thing

roman_soldier•7h ago

Grok seems to have much better uptime, I have Pro sub on both Claude and Grok so just switch between them.

iberator•6h ago

Gemini have 100% uptime and zero limits of any kind in their free models :) Highly recommended

jgalt212•6h ago

> Try Gemini to see how bad it can really get. Most of the time 2.5 pro requests fail for unknown reasons over the App.

Another commenter lives in a different world than you.

SXX•6h ago

I 99% sure they are talking of using it via AI Studio. It is very reliable.

actualwitch•5h ago

Easy to keep up a service that no one uses. /s

moffkalast•7h ago

Can anyone cheer up Claude? Please, we're all depending on you! /s

CapsAdmin•7h ago

I didn't even know they had a status page. Claude (with pro subscription) is often so unreliable with regards to connectivity and performance that I'm looking for something more predictable.

It randomly fails halfway through a response, sometimes very slow to start, hangs for long periods during a response, and so on.

The Claude chat interface can also slow down with long sessions. I sometimes use Claude code which is better, but I'm not a huge fan of terminal interfaces. I'm aware of third party frontends, but I believe those require api access which I don't like for personal use.

siva7•7h ago

Try Gemini to see how bad it can really get. Most of the time 2.5 pro requests fail for unknown reasons over the App. Claude and Chatgpt are way more reliable.

SXX•6h ago

It almost never fails via AI Studio though. Also I doubt fails you see really have anything to do with LLM itself, capacity or backend.

It's just Google own UIs and apps are almost comically bad.

siva7•6h ago

I use Gemini over web app and mobile app. Both are very unreliable. Anthropic and openai don't have more resources than google but still get it right most of the time - the quality of product development is not even in a similar league

cpursley•6h ago

Gemini is embarrassingly bad. It outright doesn’t work. I mean, it actually goes out and does stuff but it’s 100% of the time random. Even third-party forks of it work better (like Qwen Code), which is just wild.

nurettin•5h ago

For me it isn't the API timeouts, but tool calls to update files fails most of the time.

ladidahh•7h ago

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi... , they have their own plugin for vscode that might fit your use case

swader999•6h ago

My go to is "are you stuck" for some reason that seems to snap it awake, it feels like it takes offense to the question and gets back on track.

On a side note, I'm anthropomorphising too much, gonna have to upgrade and get some top rate therapy...

pimeys•5h ago

Snaps awake from the sleep and starts talking about how they used to wear onions on their belt.

I love it when they take an offense.

inanothertime•7h ago

Dear terminal based programmers, who switched to Grok Console [0] from Claude Code [1] and why should I, too?

[0] https://console.grok.com/

[1] https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code

trvz•7h ago

  curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
  ollama run smollm2:135m-instruct-q2_K --verbose

brabel•6h ago

Use llama.cpp or llamafile , ollama just adds weight and does too much magic.

tidbeck•3h ago

What kind of tasks do you use it for?

cmiles8•6h ago

All the major providers seem to have blips on latency and other issues at least once a day, which would be a “service degradation” by the standards of normal apps.

htrp•6h ago

back to their 2 9's of reliability

belevme•6h ago

OAuth handshake still gives internal server errors when you try to /login from Claude Code

jimkleiber•6h ago

Login on claude.ai seems to be back online, but login through Claude Code via OAuth is still down for me. So I'm twiddling my thumbs.

gafferongames•5h ago

Oh no. How will all the kids write code today?

jimkleiber•5h ago

I was pretty against coding tools like this until I'm trying to customize an open-source library, written in a language that I don't know, mostly to show an MVP.

For that purpose? It lets me do things I never would have even tried.

kerabatsos•5h ago

They will, but much much much slower.

andybak•4h ago

Quite nice to be called a "kid" at my age. Thanks!

gafferongames•2h ago

Young at heart

Gnarl•5h ago

Is your brain still up? I don't get this voluntary reliance on so-called AI.

andybak•4h ago

"Use" != "reliance"

(There's actually a nuanced conversation to be had on this - but from your tone, I'm not sure that's what you intended)

AgentK20•5h ago

Still seeing issues on the OAuth flow despite a "a fix [having] been implemented". Looks like whatever happened probably trashed the session database since it's forcing Claude Code to re-auth.

remnv•5h ago

Still got issues with the reauth, i’ll try glm for now

dsr_•5h ago

If LLM use were as valuable as the adherents claim it is, this news would be on par with AWS US East 1 being down.

LLMs neither have the mechanical reliability we expect from computers (does it the same way every time) nor the flexible reliability we expect from biological intelligences (solves or works around the unexpected sub-problems as they arise).

johnebgd•4h ago

If all of Amazon went down in 1998 or 1999 it wouldn’t have been news on par with AWS in 2025.

andybak•4h ago

What a weird top comment. It opens with some subtle name calling ("adherents"?), an unwarranted conclusion and then a statement about what LLMs lack (which is no surprise) that we're meant to draw a conclusion from?

I find the debate about LLMs rather exhausting. I find them useful and almost every day someone on social media tells me I'm mistaken, lying or merely deluded .

kasey_junk•4h ago

Or you are working on easy things, or my favorite incompetent.

andybak•4h ago

I'm actually working on something moderately hard but I am admittedly slightly incompetent.

dwaltrip•3h ago

Life is much easier when you assume the worst when you don’t understand why someone is doing something.

recroad•4h ago

It also happened during the night/non-working hours for people in NA so that has something to do with it.

JanisErdmanis•4h ago

It is very easy to switch. Today I got things done with ChatGPT. If I didn’t have any LLM available only then it would be disaster.

steveharman•4h ago

I wonder if it's coincidence: today Anthropic mailed out all previous customers of Claude offering a free monthly of 5x Claude Code if they sign up again.

Plenty on Reddit saying they did. And I did.

Could the outage be a the result of an "unexpected" surge in account activations / use?

Not much of a "welcome back" ;-)

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