Claude Outage
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The Claude AI service experienced an outage, prompting users to discuss the reliability of AI tools and the implications of relying on them for critical tasks. The discussion highlights the frustrations and limitations of using AI services.
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https://status.claude.com/
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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.
Logic not strong in this thread.
https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude
Smart move making it a drop-in replacement.
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.
The answer: audibly swear out loud.
They’re like sheep, but a bit smarter.
"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".
or, take the brief, unscheduled break.
Most corporate cultures need it ;]
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.
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.
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.
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.
So enjoy your extra capacity :)
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!!
It's not as smart as Opus by the way. Seems to match Sonnet.
Edit: See here, they've got an anthropic-compatible endpoint for this purpose - https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude
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.
You are better off allowing your overworked neural pathways some much-needed rest.
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.
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.
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.
Another commenter lives in a different world than you.
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.
It's just Google own UIs and apps are almost comically bad.
And no, Claude sucks ass. It's like Anthropic does not want to make money. For a company that's targeting enterprise customers, they are totally unprepared. Like forget customer support, they can't even sell properly. They brag about insane capabilities on the Max plan but good luck trying to buy that on a team plan with company billing.
Even if OpenAI doesn't have the best model, at least they know what to do to make money.
What would have improved UI development instead?
Other forces are to blame as well, though. In the 80s and 90s there were UI research labs in indistry that did structured testing of user interactions, measuring how well untutored users could accomplish assigned tasks with one UI design versus another, and there were UI-design teams that used the quantitative results of such tests to deign UIs that were demonstrably easier to learn and use.
I don't know whether anyone is doing this anymore, for reasons I'll metion below.
Designing for use is one thing. Designing for sales is another. For sales you want a UI to be visually appealing and approachable. You probably also want it to make the brand memorable.
For actual use you want to hit a different set of marks: you want it to be easy to learn. You want it to be easy to gradually discover and adopt more advanced features, and easy to adapt it to your preferred and developing workflow.
None of these qualities is something that you can notice in the first couple of minutes of interacting with a UI. They require extended use and familiarization before you even know whether they exist, much less how well designed they are.
I think that there has been a general movement away from design for use and toward a design for sales. I think that's perfectly understandable, but tragic. Understandable because if something doesn't sell then it doesn't matter what its features are. Tragic because optimizing for sales doesn't necessarily make a product better for use.
Windows 11, iOS7, iOS26 are just some example of non Web UIs, which focused first on optimizing for sales, i.e. making something look good without thinking about usability implications.
Fortunately usability testing is still pretty much a thing. Good articles here: https://www.nngroup.com/search/?q=usability+testing
But if you're really big, you could also test in production with ab testing. But as you said, the motivation tends to be to get people to click some button that creates revenue for the company. (subscribe, buy, click ad)
Somewhat related to this, the google aistudio interface was really pushing gdrive. I think they reduced it now, but in the beginning if you wanted to just upload a single file, you had to upload it to gdrive first and then use it.
There was also some annoying banner you couldn't remove above the prompt input that tried to get you to connect to gdrive.
On a side note, I'm anthropomorphising too much, gonna have to upgrade and get some top rate therapy...
I love it when they take an offense.
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.
Google & Gemini, that's where I went due to Anthropic's inability to run reliable production workloads
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
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.
https://console.anthropic.com/api/auth/send_magic_link 500 (Internal Server Error)
[0] https://console.grok.com/
[1] https://www.claude.com/product/claude-code
> 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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