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.
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.
On a side note, I'm anthropomorphising too much, gonna have to upgrade and get some top rate therapy...
But what I meant was that the whole response completely disappears. Sometimes the text I wrote previously is pasted back into the text input, but sometimes it's not.
I have this habit of copying my prompt in case it happens.
I love it when they take an offense.
Google & Gemini, that's where I went due to Anthropic's inability to run reliable production workloads
It's just Google own UIs and apps are almost comically bad.
I realize this is already a problem for other jobs, which require working with SAAS, but it seems odd to me that now some developers will fall into this "helpless" category as well.
"Well, what do you do when the power goes out?", he asked.
"I go home, just like you would.", I said with a smile.
He paused for a moment and nodded, "you know, you're absolutely right".
Serious answer: I can write code manually, but it feels like a waste of time. I'll just go for a walk to synthesize my ideas if a service was down, and I don't think not writing actual code for a day is a huge problem. So focus on health and maybe even talk to humans.
What do devs do when Github or Gitlab is down?
AWS? GCP? Azure?
Or whatever Atlassian product they're using.
Plus, most devs do a bit more than just produce lines of code.
Even the engineers at these AI companies can't use these LLMs to fix an outage when there is one. Especially SREs.
But if one has to just sit there and "wait" for the outage to subside then perhaps the kitchen timer just went off and declared that these "developers" are cooked.
The answer: audibly swear out loud.
We usually try to figure out how to build reliability/redundancy in step with what we require to function as a society under most circumstances without taking outsized losses.
When things go worse than anticipated, we take the hit, try to recover and maybe learn to strengthen the system afterwards. I would rate us roughly okay-ish at that, mostly because I don't know what to compare it to, since we are the only species to do it at this level to my knowledge.
They were broken for a week, I found several people talking about it on Reddit. But no word from Anthropic, no status page info.
I opened a support request, there was no response until 3 or 4 days later when someone messaged to say that it was fixed, and a status page related to it magically appeared.
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.
OAuth Request Failed Internal server error
Fix for me: Hopefully will work for you guys too, I logged out of claude, restarted cursor, used the anthropic console login method instead of normal login, when you click the link it gives you an option to signin with chat credentials instead, there it did not work, I pressed the link given in claude a few times and kept trying, finally I was given a pastable code, this took a while to be accepted in terminal but now is logged in.
hope it works for someone else aswell!!
https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500 (Internal Server Error)
> Elevated errors on claude.ai
> Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:18 UTC
> Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC
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" ;-)
Update - We are continuing to investigate this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC
Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC
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.
So enjoy your extra capacity :)
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh
ollama run smollm2:135m-instruct-q2_K --verboseI use Claude Code for programming work, but I choose OpenAI anywhere customer-facing and this cute little outage is making me feel better about that with every passing minute. NOT cool.
You are better off allowing your overworked neural pathways some much-needed rest.
Logic not strong in this thread.
https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude
Smart move making it a drop-in replacement.
Please let us:
* Sign in with Apple on the website
* Buy subscriptions from iOS In App Purchases
* Remove our payment info from the website
* Give paying subscribers an easy way to get actual support
As a frequent traveller I'm not sure if some of those features are gated by region, because some people said they can do some of those things.
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.
(There's actually a nuanced conversation to be had on this - but from your tone, I'm not sure that's what you intended)
For that purpose? It lets me do things I never would have even tried.
Another commenter lives in a different world than you.
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).
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 .