Developers Joke About 'Coding Like Cavemen' As AI Service Suffers Major Outage

On Wednesday, Anthropic experienced a 30-minute service outage affecting its AI infrastructure, which rendered Claude.ai, the API, and management console inaccessible to developers. This disruption sparked reactions on Hacker News, with users joking about reverting to manual coding methods, while many noted a troubling pattern of outages coinciding with US working hours, despite the company’s prompt acknowledgment and resolution of the issue.

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