Claude hit by widespread outage across apps, Code, and API
Claude partial outage
Anthropic is investigating elevated error rates affecting Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and some Claude API requests. Users may see failed requests, errors loading or sending conversations, or be asked to sign in again. Retrying may succeed. The incident was first posted on September 29, 2026, and updates are pending.
Users may see failed requests, errors loading or sending conversations, or be asked to sign in again; retrying may succeed.
- patcon
I'm not sure this is even conceivable, but... Imagine the bootstrap problem of intelligence systems going down, when no one knows how to bring them back up without the system itself walking them through it... Like if power and intelligence were to go down in a Carrington-class event in 10 years...
Like what would happen to individuals ten years from now who are trying to live if AI suddenly became inaccessible
Of course we all know most humans are useless and unable to survive outside our culture, but the difference is that I'm trying to picture is the individual trying the reason through challenges. The version of this that has been obvious to me up to now is that the individual didn't have the knowledge to look after themselves. But I guess it feels different to conceive of them not having the ability to fully reason on their own...?
To not just lack the objects of intelligence, but the very process of it...
- netdevphoenix
Imagine having a bunch of Claude agents doing time sensitive work and this happens and now a single human needs to pick up several 8k PRs authored by bots that can't talk to you now. Not sure how effective it would be to switch models using OpenRouter and the like given that, as the Earendil guys said, there is a lot of session detail that the provider doesn't share. The uptime is really going to cap their market penetration imo.
- StrLght
Coding may have been solved, but uptime remains a mystery.
- jjordan
Given the amount of usage I'm now getting from Opus 5.5, I'm surprised it took this long since release for their first outage. In my experience, it's about 10x the usage of Fable 5.1 with similar, perhaps greater levels of intelligence.
- TheqO
Anthropic yesterday: We have perfect AI agents to do everything now, value us at $100 Trillion
Anthropic today: We don't really have AI agents, they are glorified versions of automation scripts and one has broken today. But tomorrow we will have perfect AI agents, so still value us at $100 Trillion.
- albert_e
The auto mode classifier has been out of service more than once in last 24 hours.
Had to shift+tab into other modes and manually approve permissions like a cave man
- quaintdev
Yesterday got email from Claude that they are offering 50% off for one month if I renew my subscription. I bought it today and now this. I wonder if they sent that email to too many people.
- SunboX
Too many OpenAI $200 customers switching over to Anthropic.