I spend 10h/day in Claude Code and I don't remember the last time it was unavailable to me, maybe a couple of months ago? I suspect this is highly dependant on location and timezone, but at least from within Central Europe it has been smooth sailing (apart from this morning...)

My go to is "are you stuck" for some reason that seems to snap it awake, it feels like it takes offense to the question and gets back on track.

On a side note, I'm anthropomorphising too much, gonna have to upgrade and get some top rate therapy...

Try Gemini to see how bad it can really get. Most of the time 2.5 pro requests fail for unknown reasons over the App. Claude and Chatgpt are way more reliable.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=anthropi... , they have their own plugin for vscode that might fit your use case

Early in my career (which started in civil engineering) I was working with a man at the very end of his, which started in the 1950s. I was the young tech-focused intern who found a way to use a computer for everything even when printed and sometimes hand-drawn plans were the standard of the day. He asked me once if I knew how to use a slide rule, which I didn't.

"Well, what do you do when the power goes out?", he asked.

"I go home, just like you would.", I said with a smile.

He paused for a moment and nodded, "you know, you're absolutely right".

Non-serious answer: I'll go for a walk.

Serious answer: I can write code manually, but it feels like a waste of time. I'll just go for a walk to synthesize my ideas if a service was down, and I don't think not writing actual code for a day is a huge problem. So focus on health and maybe even talk to humans.

Doubtful all services are ever down simultaneously, either way:

What do devs do when Github or Gitlab is down?

AWS? GCP? Azure?

Or whatever Atlassian product they're using.

Plus, most devs do a bit more than just produce lines of code.

As a technical ... I don't know what to call myself anymore; not a product manager but not a developer nor engineer.

The answer: audibly swear out loud.

> This makes me wonder: what do developers, who completely rely on LLMs to write their code, do when the service is down?

Even the engineers at these AI companies can't use these LLMs to fix an outage when there is one. Especially SREs.

But if one has to just sit there and "wait" for the outage to subside then perhaps the kitchen timer just went off and declared that these "developers" are cooked.

If they're smart, they just switch to ppq.ai or an openrouter provider where they can purchase prepaid tokens from various providers with many alternative models available.

Switch to codex? :)

Even worse the on-call folks who need to do recovery but need an LLM to do it, but surprise they are both on the same cloud provider.

Same as if GitHub were down over the last decade.

Prepare the prompts for the features.

What do most people do, when the power goes out?

We usually try to figure out how to build reliability/redundancy in step with what we require to function as a society under most circumstances without taking outsized losses.

When things go worse than anticipated, we take the hit, try to recover and maybe learn to strengthen the system afterwards. I would rate us roughly okay-ish at that, mostly because I don't know what to compare it to, since we are the only species to do it at this level to my knowledge.

Use Qwen3/other locally via lm-studio.

Use another AI tool :D

Grab a coffee and wait.

I mean, same thing when other web services are down. Try updating your packages without a web connection...

Switch to Grok or vice versa (I have Pro on both), or use any one of the other free tier LLM's (Gemini, ChatGPT etc)

Until it's back up and running, something I did that worked for me was access the web version of Claude Code, link the repository there, and ask them to implement something. After they implemented it, they enabled the option to click the "Open in CLI" button, allowing me to use Claude Code CLI from the terminal again.

And it's expiring a lot lately. I used to go weeks without it expiring, yesterday it expired twice in one day.

This has 100% ruined my morning! -_- I tried many different ways to get in, I'm using claude in terminal in cursor.

Fix for me: Hopefully will work for you guys too, I logged out of claude, restarted cursor, used the anthropic console login method instead of normal login, when you click the link it gives you an option to signin with chat credentials instead, there it did not work, I pressed the link given in claude a few times and kept trying, finally I was given a pastable code, this took a while to be accepted in terminal but now is logged in.

hope it works for someone else aswell!!

Still down for me. Anyone got a workaround?

they marked as resolved but is not Resolved This incident has been resolved. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Update We are continuing to monitor for any further issues. Posted 30 minutes ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 10:36 UTC Monitoring A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results. Posted 1 hour ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:46 UTC Identified The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:30 UTC Update We are continuing to investigate this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:25 UTC Investigating We are currently investigating this issue. Posted 2 hours ago. Oct 31, 2025 - 09:17 UTC This incident affected: claude.ai, platform.claude.com (formerly console.anthropic.com), and Claude API (api.anthropic.com). https://status.claude.com/incidents/s5f75jhwjs6g

I just managed to log in to claude code. You have to spam the login when you recive the screen with authorize press on it multiple times. you will recive errors than try again i have tried like 70 times and it started finnaly

Related question: why does Claude Code need a new auth token very few days?? It's so annoying.

Ah so it's not just me. What's a good backup these days? Gemini? GLM?

Same here, happed after updaing claude code to 2.0.30 today.

Same with me, is smth happened with claude?

This is the day I decided to finally sign up and use claude-code - and then I'm greeted with this exact page. Gahhh!

happening to me as well right now

how long that outing is gonna take ! it's been like an hour!

Same error i think they still have problems i have tried multiple accounts

it works for me now

same here, and I had a lot of work to do....

same problem here

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Same shit.. paying 200 a month for nothing - just cancelled.

same here

same for me

Same here, paying £90 for a subscription I can hardly use FFS

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same.. bye antropic

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Yeah, their API's are returning me a grand total of 1 token per second now or so. It's...

Wow, that is a lot of not-green for a 30 day status page.

yep, same for me and unable to use the API either

Claude code is working, but the login system is not working

So enjoy your extra capacity :)

Yeah you'll be right as long as your oauth token doesn't expire!

Use llama.cpp or llamafile , ollama just adds weight and does too much magic.

What kind of tasks do you use it for?

I use it to generate me example code e.g. how do I do <thing> in <programming language> using <library>.

I've also had it suggest solutions e.g. "This C++/OpenGL code doesn't run in wayland can you suggest some solutions".

Other stuff like generating tests is hit and miss.

I'm sure some people did, by I personally use them every day - for coding tasks, for language translation, for research, current events (Grok is really good at this thanks to being connected to the X real-time data), for day-to-day questions (like my daughter asking me what's that Pokemon called) and so on.

I use it quite often. But just small stuff like simple automations, userscripts, docker config that sort of thing

If I have a question for SO these days then I ask Claude instead and tell it to use SO where possible. It's preferable to actually asking it on SO which often results in the question being edited, downvoted and closed by someone with an anime child profile picture.

I've never started. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And also not going to. I see enough crap, colleges produce, to never touch this pile of dung.

Never really started. Really the only properly good AI thing that I’ve used is AI autocompletions, which are generally higher quality than the traditional ones that I’ve used. Not that it’s perfect and at least the one in Xcode has hallucinated on me.

Is it really worth the time, though?

You are better off allowing your overworked neural pathways some much-needed rest.

Maybe not today, but this is how civilization will end.

Even if AI is down for 20% of the time it can still outcode you 100x.

AWS being down is not a reminder to not use HTTP or SSH.

It's a reminder to not rely on a single service.

Logic not strong in this thread.

yepp

They did heavily restrict usage, even on a Pro account, according to my experiences. I love Claude but come on. :(

At least their customer service is nice. They forwarded my messages to the dev team and they implemented a lot of things I have suggested.

"Use" != "reliance"

(There's actually a nuanced conversation to be had on this - but from your tone, I'm not sure that's what you intended)

I was pretty against coding tools like this until I'm trying to customize an open-source library, written in a language that I don't know, mostly to show an MVP.

For that purpose? It lets me do things I never would have even tried.

Quite nice to be called a "kid" at my age. Thanks!

They will, but much much much slower.

Gemini have 100% uptime and zero limits of any kind in their free models :) Highly recommended

Easy to keep up a service that no one uses. /s

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It is very easy to switch. Today I got things done with ChatGPT. If I didn’t have any LLM available only then it would be disaster.

It also happened during the night/non-working hours for people in NA so that has something to do with it.

If all of Amazon went down in 1998 or 1999 it wouldn’t have been news on par with AWS in 2025.

What a weird top comment. It opens with some subtle name calling ("adherents"?), an unwarranted conclusion and then a statement about what LLMs lack (which is no surprise) that we're meant to draw a conclusion from?

I find the debate about LLMs rather exhausting. I find them useful and almost every day someone on social media tells me I'm mistaken, lying or merely deluded .