This is almost certainly a software issue, though. Even if it's due to scaling, they still built a system that failed catastrophically rather than degrading gracefully.

▲

brookst 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Sure. But could it be k8s config? Could it be Nvidia Bright Cluster? Could it be load balancing?

I'm not saying Anthropic isn't to blame for a system that is literally approaching one-nine uptime; they certainly are. I am saying that jumping to the "it must be vibe coding's fault" is an emotional confirmation-bias belief, not an evidence-based belief.

	▲	organsnyder 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd expect that they're also managing their k8s config and other infra using LLMs (it's actually quite good at this, at least for my simple homelab use-cases).

▲

dpark an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> failed catastrophically rather than degrading gracefully

You mean like returning 529s and operating with reduced QoS?

▲

MontyCarloHall 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Right. If this were truly a pure scaling issue, I’d expect the interface would offer an archive.is-esque “Claude is at capacity; your prompt is #XXX/YYY in the queue; estimated time remaining: ZZZ seconds”

Instead, the whole system just shits the bed, catastrophically.

▲

SoftTalker 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But such messages would suggest that Claude has engineered limits, which isn't what the market wants to hear. Completely falling over and being unavailable is just another Tuesday on the internet, will be forgotten by the weekend.

▲

georgemcbay 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> being unavailable is just another Tuesday on the internet, will be forgotten by the weekend.

This is true when you have like one failure a year, but Anthropic is starting to look a lot like github lately when it comes to uptime.

After a certain point the reputation for unreliability starts sticking to you, especially when you position yourself as an indispensable tool for completing work people need done.

	▲	matltc 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah to those of us who are on the know, but maybe it can be spun as "Claude adoption breaks the internet" to the consumer

▲

slashdave an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Except these models are not run prompt-to-prompt. The infra has to hold the entire context.