Claude was down
status.claude.comThis is likely due to the Claude Builder Club[0] free pro account access codes being sent out to students - as I have just received mine.
edit: it's back up for me now
I’ve been following Claude’s status updates for a while, and it’s actually refreshing to see this kind of transparency. Most companies just hide issues behind vague “technical difficulties” messages, but here you can clearly track uptime and incidents. It gives a lot more confidence when using the service daily, especially since many of us depend on it for real work. Downtime is frustrating, but knowing what’s happening makes a huge difference. I wish more AI and SaaS tools had a page like this—it feels more trustworthy and professional.
And oddly code bases will likely improve in quality given Claude’s recent performance.
It’s like having a vindictive drunken monkey as a pair programmer.
It looks like Claude Code switched the default model to Sonnet 4.5, even for max users who are paying for Opus. I had to set the environment variable ANTHROPIC_MODEL=opus to get opus back. Sonnet 4.5 indeed acts like a drunken monkey on the math-heavy legacy C++ codebase I'm working on.
Is it worse for you?
Yes, Sonnet 4.5 was noticeably worse than Opus on my codebase.
approval
So is appsignal, z.ai api, notion. seems like something big happened.
Notion seems to be working:
503 upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: remote connection failure, transport failure reason: delayed connect error: Connection refused
> 503 upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection timeout.
Totally borked right now. Time to have another look at claude-code-router.
Rate exceeded.
Session resets at 2:30am
This necessitated a post?
This is electricity.
What do you mean?
why don't they hire ppl to fix all this. crazy that companies with billions of dollars in investments are hiring so little.
Feels like the good old days of fail whale
They might want to try codex.
AGI is paused today.
hypothesis: claude pushed vibe coded api router to prod
yikes. just started working on an idea.
Took them an hour to fix it, good job!