Anthropic Claude and API service outages

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77 points·vikrantrathore··61 comments

One of the Anthropic salesmen told everyone to use loops all over the place, auto mode and use Fable 5 and Opus 5 with multiple sub agents.

Then it seems they forgot about their own infrastructure which goes down once every two weeks.

Looks like most of all the engineering knowledge that was needed at Google was lost after the whole org at Anthropic is now vibing their work.

Rather than screaming “coding is solved!”, “AGI with a month” and spooking everyone with the bogus mysticism of “Mythos” which now everyone has an equivalent strong cyber model, maybe keep the lights on first before plotting the next doomsday story.

How they go down globally? All regions use the same infra?

Anyone can explain why do they fail so often and so seriously? Is this inherent to managing LLMs or is their Ops really just that bad?

I think it's because customers don't seem to mind enough to switch.

I really want to support Anthropic because of their commitments to effective altruism, but it's getting harder and harder to justify on technical merits. Sol is just faster, cheaper, and more reliable, and as good as Opus for my use cases

Do you actually believe in their altruistic goals?

The goals are altruistic. The torrent client was purely instrumental.

Because coding is solved and there’s no need for software engineers any more.

Being charitable to Anthropic though: coding is sort of solved for a very limited definition of “solved”.

Software engineering of huge distributed systems at massive scale is very much not solved, and it seems Anthropic don’t have the human capital to do it particularly well

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