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danielbln
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...)
SOLAR_FIELDS
Stability has seen a marked improvement since summer. I used to regularly get 429 error codes multiple times per session. Lately it’s been quite awhile since I’ve had it error out or silently exit the chat with no response. I don’t usually code at the peak times though, when it does go down its usually morning time in USA when all of the Europeans are still using it too.
anonzzzies
Same, it has been stable mostly. Becsusr of the instability before, we have our own scripts protecting it so it continues after failure, for several different failures.
nojs
Same. It used to go down all the time but the past couple of months it’s been very stable.
dfsegoat
Very similar usage duration / window for me (US Pacific) - no availability issues.
CapsAdmin
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.
swader999
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...
CapsAdmin
Well that has happened sometimes, I usually say continue.
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.
pimeys
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.
huflungdung
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verdverm
> I'm looking for something more predictable
Google & Gemini, that's where I went due to Anthropic's inability to run reliable production workloads
siva7
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
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
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
TexanFeller
My theory, beyond their organizational incentive issues, is that Google’s UIs are so pathetically bad because the company is so gung ho about “web first”. The web is a wonderful thing, but it’s set UI development back by decades.
nurettin
For me it isn't the API timeouts, but tool calls to update files fails most of the time.
cpursley
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.
ladidahh
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi... , they have their own plugin for vscode that might fit your use case
fainpul
This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?
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.
efsavage
Early in my career (which started in civil engineering) I was working with a man at the very end of his, which started in the 1950s. I was the young tech-focused intern who found a way to use a computer for everything even when printed and sometimes hand-drawn plans were the standard of the day. He asked me once if I knew how to use a slide rule, which I didn't.
"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".
fainpul
Nice story. I guess it can be looked at as some sort of parable. But if I take it literally: I never had a power outage at work, but SAAS downtime happens every year (probably multiple times).
DANmode
Make sure you have enough vRAM around for the local models!
or, take the brief, unscheduled break.
Most corporate cultures need it ;]
mewpmewp2
Non-serious answer: I'll go for a walk.
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.
erikbye
Doubtful all services are ever down simultaneously, either way:
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.
rvz
> This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?
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.
mayhaps
As a technical ... I don't know what to call myself anymore; not a product manager but not a developer nor engineer.
The answer: audibly swear out loud.
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Aeolun
Claude/codex herder.
They’re like sheep, but a bit smarter.
mewpmewp2
I'm calling myself Vibe Director.
_DeadFred_
Wetware interface. You are the wetware interface between the company and the AI it uses.
ares623
Even worse the on-call folks who need to do recovery but need an LLM to do it, but surprise they are both on the same cloud provider.
jasonvorhe
If they're smart, they just switch to ppq.ai or an openrouter provider where they can purchase prepaid tokens from various providers with many alternative models available.
bachittle
Pro tip: if you pay for Claude, also subscribe to status updates here: https://status.claude.com . you may want to add a rule to filter these to a tag or folder as they can be quite spammy, but it has helped me lots. It tells you which specific models are down and what platforms are down, such as claude web, app, API, etc.
esperent
I signed up for a Claude Teams account last week. File uploads were not working anywhere - web, desktop, Android app. As soon as I switched over to a personal account they worked again. Switch back to Team account, broken again with just a cryptic 404 error popping up.
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.
belevme
OAuth handshake still gives internal server errors when you try to /login from Claude Code
AgentK20
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.
sometimes_all
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.
jimkleiber
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.
belevme
My auth token expired and when I type /login in Claude Code it leads me to a webpage showing:
OAuth Request Failed Internal server error
adamhurl
This has 100% ruined my morning! -_- I tried many different ways to get in, I'm using claude in terminal in cursor.
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!!
lucode
they marked as resolved but is not Resolved This incident has been resolved. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Update We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Monitoring A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Posted 1 hour ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:46 UTC Identified The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC Update We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC Investigating We are currently investigating this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC This incident affected: claude.ai, platform.claude.com (formerly console.anthropic.com), and Claude API (api.anthropic.com). https://status.claude.com/incidents/s5f75jhwjs6g
rgazeredo
Until it's back up and running, something I did that worked for me was access the web version of Claude Code, link the repository there, and ask them to implement something. After they implemented it, they enabled the option to click the "Open in CLI" button, allowing me to use Claude Code CLI from the terminal again.
mr_mitm
And it's expiring a lot lately. I used to go weeks without it expiring, yesterday it expired twice in one day.
Mariancbn
I just managed to log in to claude code. You have to spam the login when you recive the screen with authorize press on it multiple times. you will recive errors than try again i have tried like 70 times and it started finnaly
epop
it worked for me as well, thanks
lxs3
haha worked for me!
woodpanel
This is the day I decided to finally sign up and use claude-code - and then I'm greeted with this exact page. Gahhh!
Mariancbn
welcome
phgn
Related question: why does Claude Code need a new auth token very few days?? It's so annoying.
tooa
Claude will return soon Claude is currently experiencing a temporary service disruption. We’re working on it, please check back soon.
1dom
Wow, that is a lot of not-green for a 30 day status page.
johnisgood
At least they are honest / transparent about it.
viaoktavia
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delaminator
cant even log into console
https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500 (Internal Server Error)
jakub_jo
Its now phrased with "Major Outage".
> 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
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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.