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Claude partial outage

171 points · 151 comments · sidcool

  1. netdevphoenix · · focus · HN ↗
    Imagine having a bunch of Claude agents doing time sensitive work and this happens and now a single human needs to pick up several 8k PRs authored by bots that can't talk to you now. Not sure how effective it would be to switch models using OpenRouter and the like given that, as the Earendil guys said, there is a lot of session detail that the provider doesn't share. The uptime is really going to cap their market penetration imo.
    1. mococa · · focus · HN ↗
      They probably have an OpenAI subscription, same for OpenAI SWE, they have a Claude Code subscription
      1. ceejayoz · · focus · HN ↗
        They likely also have dedicated and separate clusters for their own use.
        1. mococa · · focus · HN ↗
          If so - for running Chinese models :trollface:
          1. ceejayoz · · focus · HN ↗
            I'm sure they run every model they can get their hands on in internal clusters.
      2. rcleveng · · focus · HN ↗
        When I worked at one of the early paging and cellular companies, every company had phones and pagers on at least one or two competitors for the oncall folks - you can't get a call to fix your cellular network when you are down.

        Likewise while at Google, they didn't let us put Google Voice numbers down as our oncall phone number. Some folks even had multiple phones on different networks as backups.

        I'm sure they have either other SOTA models or open source models around to help if things to completely pear shaped.

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