Claude going down is less interesting than the way these outages keep happening
What jumps out to me isn’t that Claude had an outage. Large model APIs go sideways sometimes. What’s more interesting is how narrow and yet awkward these failures can be: multiple model families affected at once, requests failing or coming back with errors, and users left guessing whether it’s their code, their account, or Anthropic itself. That’s the part I’d actually care about if I were shipping against Claude. When a provider says it has “identified the cause” and is “working on a fix,” that
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