alt Hacker NewsOkay, so anthropic has amazing AI which supposedly writes most of their code and can continuously improve... meanwhile they have outages on a regular basis, and any kind of long-running work will now consistently hit 'API Error: Server is temporarily limiting requests'. Not sure of this is intentional to force a reduction of token usage, but at this point I need to build around these throttling limits and outages with my own tools to restart/resume sessions. From my experience, in the last 2 weeks, literally 100% of any non-trivial Claude session/work will now be blocked on these issues, requiring manual intervention.
One of my focuses now is my own model-agnostic, harness and workflow orchestration (I know everyone is building these) , baselining on opus, and aiming to transition to Chinese models like deepseek in the short term and hopefully open, self hosted models in the future (which I plan to open source).
The nonstop marketing fluff from anthropic while their service quality and availability noticeably degrades... just continues to destroy my trust in the company.
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And don't forget that they have BILLIONS of dollars and can't figure out how to get a decent support or public communications system setup.
This comment is a good example of the double standard laymen have about AI usage:
If you use AI, then AI must be expected to solve all problems, even problems that affect everyone like infra scaling.
And if perfection isn’t delivered, then of course it wasn’t: you used AI and AI sucks.
Well, people keep throwing money at them, including you and investors. So why would they care? It hasn't annoyed you or a large enough portion of users enough to move off their service - because there isn't a better alternative.
Their outages are probably not due to their code though. It’s probably their infrastructure that can’t keep up. So seeing failures of infrastructure doesn’t really tell you anything about how good or bad Anthropic makes use of their models.
They also don’t have…a login page with authentication . To access the console you get an email link. No passkeys, passwords, 2fa, just an email.
Not necessarily the parent's fault, but the energy of this thread is not my favourite...
We’ve got a company of several thousand employees serving hundreds of millions of people arguably the best AI model in the market. Meanwhile you’re asking for a handkerchief for your pool of tears because their product is struggling to do your daily job functions for you, with much of that due to being limited by the worlds supply of silicon, electricity, water, and other resources. Cry me a river.
Look, I've never been someone who mindlessly hypes AI companies, as a matter of fact I think they have serious leadership problems across the board, but you people are straw-manning them so badly it actually makes me sympathize with them.
They aren't saying they have fully automated luxury AGI, they specifically list the ways models fall short of that bar and caution against people taking the 8x figure as the actual uplift number. At the same time they recognize that 80% of new code is now AI-authored, when two years ago those models were little more than toys. And frankly that checks out: if two years ago you told me we'd have something like Opus 4.8/GPT 5.5 I would have rolled to disbelieve.
you're conflating a compute problem with a code quality problem.
Personally at my own job self-writing code is letting us tackle big, long-deferred refactoring projects (like the article mentions), but any sort of refactoring introduces new bugs.
Indeed... why is Anthropic even employing people at all if this AI magic story is true?
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those are results of the humans only. not the AI. AI is perfect /s
Just as you expected, I'm throwing in my harness. Please support: https://github.com/rush86999/atom
Have you considered just... using OpenAI? They are more reliable, models are just as good, and their subscriptions provide more requests per dollar.
Opus 4.8's critical assessment of Anthropic's "When AI builds itself" [0][1]. Because, why not?
[0] https://pastebin.com/Vc5Yq9Ai [1] https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme...
Infrastructure is a much harder problem. They can't even improve Claude Code, which eats 1GB+ of RAM. Meanwhile, my editor only consumes 80MB of RAM.