They have been screwing around in the back-end, for a while. They are doing something and not being transparent, re-routing the models, degrading performance and intelligence and all week post-fable ban the quality was garbage, last day and a half it improved, last half an hour degraded, now it's down.
Times like this remind me that despite GLM and Codex and other models being hyped up as Claude Opus 4.8 replacements, I still would not trust them with my most important work. For example, right now I'm working on a huge refactoring project, and even Opus has struggled with it after several days. I cannot even imagine how GLM, Codex, or other models would handle this. So the only option for me is to wait until this outage is over.
And it's not like open models are cheap to run even as alternatives. For example, with my $100/mo subscription for Claude Code, I often burn more than $100 a day several times a week. But if I were to use the API of GLM, it would be about $300.
529s as a forcing function for taking a walk
Per their status page, the main product now has one 9 of uptime.
API Error: 529 Overloaded. This is a server-side issue, usually temporary — try again in a moment. If it persists, check https://status.claude.com.
[delayed]
Better buy more capacity from SpaceX.
Interestingly not Opus 4.5 apparently, which is still available via API.
I noticed it in real time, unfortunately. Perhaps the token bonfire I've been feeding all day is to blame...
They have been screwing around in the back-end, for a while. They are doing something and not being transparent, re-routing the models, degrading performance and intelligence and all week post-fable ban the quality was garbage, last day and a half it improved, last half an hour degraded, now it's down.
It has been like that all of last week
Seen this yesterday as well.
Times like this remind me that despite GLM and Codex and other models being hyped up as Claude Opus 4.8 replacements, I still would not trust them with my most important work. For example, right now I'm working on a huge refactoring project, and even Opus has struggled with it after several days. I cannot even imagine how GLM, Codex, or other models would handle this. So the only option for me is to wait until this outage is over.
And it's not like open models are cheap to run even as alternatives. For example, with my $100/mo subscription for Claude Code, I often burn more than $100 a day several times a week. But if I were to use the API of GLM, it would be about $300.
Since you cannot imagine how they'd perform, isn't this the perfect opportunity to test your assumption?
dang et al,
"Service X is down" is not "news". Kinda feels like points-farming.
Anyone caring that X works is gonna know it's down - they can't work! And probably why they are at HN ;)
HN as an "is service X down?" detector is less reliable than trying the actual service :)
If HN is gonna keep letting people post "X is down" no worries. But it seems worth a flag.
Fix Fable pls.