Claude Is Down

Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, stumbled with “elevated errors” on claude.ai, then did the status-page shuffle: “Investigating,” “Identified,” “Fix implemented,” and now the never-ending “We’re monitoring.” Translation: it’s wobbling but walking. The real action? The community, which lit up like a Halloween server rack.

One camp is over it. “Is this news?” ask the fed-up folks, claiming daily outages and pointing to weeks of flaky access. Some say reliability only improved when usage got restricted—less fun, but fewer fires. Others brought the receipts: downtime used to hit at U.S. work hours; after servers were spread out, it’s “random times” now. A resigned chorus says they’ve ditched AI in workflows—one user went back to Google and Stack Overflow after getting burned too many times. Rival drama? Oh yes. Several brag they’re hopping to Grok when Claude hiccups, flexing better uptime and paid dual subs.

Then there’s the chaos-gremlin vibe: a surprising slice of commenters are weirdly grateful, calling outages a “brain break” that stops them from outsourcing their thinking. The jokes keep flowing—AI detox memes, “touch grass” quips, and a HN thread to keep score. Bottom line: Claude may be back, but trust is still buffering—and the comments are absolutely not