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Title: Developers Joke About 'Coding Like Cavemen' As AI Service Suffers
Major Outage

Link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/1...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday
afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that
took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access
Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an
hour. The outage affected all three of Anthropic's main services
simultaneously, with the company posting at 12:28 pm Eastern that "APIs,
Console, and Claude.ai are down. Services will be restored as soon as
possible." As of press time, the services appear to be restored. The
disruption, though lasting only about 30 minutes, quickly took the top spot
on tech link-sharing site Hacker News for a short time and inspired immediate
reactions from developers who have become increasingly reliant on AI coding
tools for their daily work. "Everyone will just have to learn how to do it
like we did in the old days, and blindly copy and paste from Stack Overflow,"
joked one Hacker News commenter. Another user recalled a joke from a previous
AI outage: "Nooooo I'm going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of
my code like a caveman from December 2024." The most recent outage came at an
inopportune time, affecting developers across the US who have integrated
Claude into their workflows. One Hacker News user observed: "It's like every
other day, the moment US working hours start, AI (in my case I mostly use
Anthropic, others may be better) starts dying or at least getting
intermittent errors. In EU working hours there's rarely any outages." Another
user also noted this pattern, saying that "early morning here in the UK
everything is fine, as soon as most of the US is up and at it, then it slowly
turns to treacle." While some users criticized Anthropic for reliability
issues in recent months, the company's status page acknowledged the issue
within 39 minutes of the initial reports, and by 12:55 pm Eastern announced
that a fix had been implemented and that the company's teams were monitoring
the results.

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