alt Hacker NewsThis is almost certainly a software issue, though. Even if it's due to scaling, they still built a system that failed catastrophically rather than degrading gracefully.
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dpark • today at 6:26 PM
> failed catastrophically rather than degrading gracefully
You mean like returning 529s and operating with reduced QoS?
MontyCarloHall • today at 3:25 PM
Right. If this were truly a pure scaling issue, I’d expect the interface would offer an archive.is-esque “Claude is at capacity; your prompt is #XXX/YYY in the queue; estimated time remaining: ZZZ seconds”
Instead, the whole system just shits the bed, catastrophically.
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Sure. But could it be k8s config? Could it be Nvidia Bright Cluster? Could it be load balancing?
I'm not saying Anthropic isn't to blame for a system that is literally approaching one-nine uptime; they certainly are. I am saying that jumping to the "it must be vibe coding's fault" is an emotional confirmation-bias belief, not an evidence-based belief.