alt Hacker NewsTheir 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.
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The whole thing is actually powered by a shitton of hamsters inside a bunch of 4u rack mount cases running on spinning wheels at high speed. Somehow at scale this works.
Sometimes they all happen to randomly take a nap at the same time - hence the outages
We all saw their code...
That seems like an assumption based on basically nothing. There is a lot of code at the infra layer, and based on the stack choices for Claude code and based on how buggy and unreliable ~everything from anthropic is, it seems pretty bizarre to claim these issues are not related to their code.
The messed up scrolling behavior I keep getting in Claude Code is definitely due to their code.