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palculast Sunday at 11:22 PM4 repliesview on HN

Thank you! Opening an incident as soon as user impact begins is one of those instincts you develop after handling major incidents for years as an SRE at Google, and now at Anthropic.

I was also fortunate to be using Claude at that exact moment (for personal reasons), which meant I could immediately see the severity of the outage.


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koakuma-chanyesterday at 12:08 AM

It's important for companies to use their own products.

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aduwahlast Sunday at 11:39 PM

Take my condolences, Sunday outages are rough

nrhrjrjrjtntbtyesterday at 1:28 AM

Sweet. Hopefully it is more than instinct but a codified at Anthropic. I.e. a graduate engineer with little experience can assess and raise incident if needed.