Also... One of the only industries/products where unusable product/seevice (token / context burned) is neither refunded let alone even acknowledged. I wonder how many millions of dollars of inference have been stolen during these outages? First you lose the work in flight, then you lose the time, and finally you lose the token burn for a second time. What a fantastic time to not have any regulations if you're rich and greedy!
Do you know where these rumors are coming from? I keep seeing posts like yours on HN and Reddit, which, yes, literally confirms there are rumors, but I can't tell whether they're based on anything.
Everyone at Anthropic is interviewing a new Claude model which they are about to hire and forgot to monitor their old model and thus it goes down.
If outages like this happened on every major deploy at any other company; this would be viewed as unacceptable, especially if it was something like Google Search going down on every update.
I'm was closing a day of work and it stopped in the middle of a long plan, I started codex and tell it: "I was in the middle of work with Claude could you read the plan and the session "x" in ~/.claude and continue the work" it just completed everything :D
1. I go direct to source, i.e. DS platform, I find it cheaper than paying the openrouter tax -- I also switch it up a bit
2. I built a local LLM router, that I update with new profiles that have my preferred provider of the week (lowest token costs/speed) with fallbacks, like mimo --> DS4 etc.. if there is overloading,
3. I use 3 diff harnesses, CC/Codex + Opencode -- they all talk to each other through a custom rig system that routes messages between llms using a Rust backed structured JSON system
Not saying this is the best, it's just what I like and works for me^.
I can flow quite naturally between Opus/Astra/K3/GLM/MiMo/DS/etc.. this way and often do...more so these days with subs no longer great as they used to be.
I started using Pi with Astra on a whim after really enjoying Astra and reading somewhere that you get close to identical results as with the codex harness but for a significant hunk less token usage.
Coming from mostly using Claude models, the terse factual statements coming from Astra via the Pi harness are a breath of fresh air over having to wade through the flowery verbose nonsense that Claude constantly outputs
`claude --resume` will list your sessions, you can copy the title. Codex may just list and grep the sessions files in ~/.claude and filter the one with the name.
I also have the habit of naming my sessions with `/rename`
I’m working on a project that makes switching between coding harnesses essentially unnoticeable. It’s particularly useful when I run out of credits on any given day
The entire platform is skill driven, and based on the premise that state is your local file system. That makes switching harnesses so easy
It’s all open source and has plenty of other features, including inter agent communication, telegram client and much more in the pipeline
I think having a codebase that can use any harness is the optimal setup. I often switch between harnesses and models all the time at work. We have our state/spec stored in git, so we can pack it up on friday and start fresh on monday. Or more commonly, using gemini/opus to create rich specifications and using Luna to implement them. Then switching again for reviews etc.
I’ve subscribed to chatgpt at 50% off last week and I’m using claude less and less. Not only replies are faster but 20$ plan gives you access to astra.
Not sure how can claude even compete at this point unless openAI seriously downgrade the models to save money.
Posted this in the xiaomi thread, but are folks working in biology / cybersecurity seeing more limits in what Opus (not Fable) is allowing? This has happened quite suddenly for me and I’m stuck in the middle of a project that would have otherwise called for use of Claude.
I’ll be trying these models out and may end up switching my subscriptions if this craziness continues
i was talking to opus the other night about the polio vaccine related stuff (i had been arguing with one of those people who claims the polio vaccine didn't work so i figured i'd use it as an excuse to brush up on some bio/history). i asked it to explain how polio virus was isolated pre PCR and claude hard killed my session citing security reasons (it was talking about stool samples ffs LOL)
Hell i’m working on ai for board games as a hobby (tfmbot.com) and one of the cards is ‘microbes’. Sent straight back to 4.8 for having that in my code.
I wonder if I'm being saved by remote working since I think I have three days in the 365 days, and I've also managed to go years without a single sick day.
Apologies for the rant, but why do these things constantly hit the front page? It is not interesting, it's not a discussion, and if you are using the models you probably already know.
HN is already a waterfall of AI meta conversations and bike-shedding, now we have to discuss service outages about the AI too?
Can we talk about stuff people are building again, with or without AI, and stop gasping at every minute detail of LLM service providers.
I don't know if something changed recently, but I have been getting a lot of stuff "flagged by safeguards" in the last two days.
I am quite confident that what I'm doing is well within the law, and I'm not even doing any kind of pen-testing stuff, just some basic reverse engineering, but I can't even use Fable anymore because every time I enable it, it works for about twenty seconds and makes me drop down to Opus 4.8, and often even down to Sonnet.
If anyone here works at Anthropic, did you make the safeguards super sensitive recently?
Also for Grok at the same time, must be a problem with Colossus
Their "Subscribe to incident" doodad isn't working either. Hanging when posting contact info object
It seems to be updated correctly now
Something is on fire. Literally or figuratively.
Also... One of the only industries/products where unusable product/seevice (token / context burned) is neither refunded let alone even acknowledged. I wonder how many millions of dollars of inference have been stolen during these outages? First you lose the work in flight, then you lose the time, and finally you lose the token burn for a second time. What a fantastic time to not have any regulations if you're rich and greedy!
Just like a software engineer who gets sick or has to pick up their kids or has an appointment. We're used to this, oddly.
Proof that vibe coded or not, people pay someone else mostly for liability.
And uniformity.
I think thats more for being able to have the status page not tied to your own infrastructure.
It’s super easy to just run a totally disconnected synthetic check.
If you host it yourself, an outage on your side might end up taking it offline too.
There are rumors of Opus 5.5 launching on Tuesday so maybe it due to that? Previously as well there have been incidents just before launch.
Do you know where these rumors are coming from? I keep seeing posts like yours on HN and Reddit, which, yes, literally confirms there are rumors, but I can't tell whether they're based on anything.
All their API routes for non existing models return 404 and when there's a new model it returns 403.
us-east-1 was blowing up a bit tonight with ec-2. Maybe it's related.
Everyone at Anthropic is interviewing a new Claude model which they are about to hire and forgot to monitor their old model and thus it goes down.
If outages like this happened on every major deploy at any other company; this would be viewed as unacceptable, especially if it was something like Google Search going down on every update.
problems with Grok too ... so i guess Grok 4.7 tried to escape and took control of Colossus datacenter.
/model claude-opus-4-8
and keep workin'
Yup, switched back to good ol' opus-4-6, seems to be working for now.
like it's 1999 :)
I'm was closing a day of work and it stopped in the middle of a long plan, I started codex and tell it: "I was in the middle of work with Claude could you read the plan and the session "x" in ~/.claude and continue the work" it just completed everything :D
I did this with DeepSeek a couple of days ago.
yeah same that's my preferred flow now -- sill use Claude and OpenAI a bit, though recent nerfs to subs has really made using codex much harder.
DS 4.1 flash is my main powerhouse and Opus/Astra my auditors (when they're not out of tokens) otherwise K3 or DS4 pro
Ignorant questions for you and anyone else using DS:
1. who hosts the inference
2. which harness are you using with it, still CC?
Whatever openrouter puts me on, running in pi (though I do all comms over my xmpp wrapper).
So everyone has their preferred way of doing it.
1. I go direct to source, i.e. DS platform, I find it cheaper than paying the openrouter tax -- I also switch it up a bit
2. I built a local LLM router, that I update with new profiles that have my preferred provider of the week (lowest token costs/speed) with fallbacks, like mimo --> DS4 etc.. if there is overloading,
3. I use 3 diff harnesses, CC/Codex + Opencode -- they all talk to each other through a custom rig system that routes messages between llms using a Rust backed structured JSON system
Not saying this is the best, it's just what I like and works for me^.
I can flow quite naturally between Opus/Astra/K3/GLM/MiMo/DS/etc.. this way and often do...more so these days with subs no longer great as they used to be.
I started using Pi with Astra on a whim after really enjoying Astra and reading somewhere that you get close to identical results as with the codex harness but for a significant hunk less token usage.
Coming from mostly using Claude models, the terse factual statements coming from Astra via the Pi harness are a breath of fresh air over having to wade through the flowery verbose nonsense that Claude constantly outputs
how do you get the "x" session name?
/resume in claude code.
You can even tell the new harness to go find your latest session in the other harness and it works perfectly. You don't even need the name!
`claude --resume` will list your sessions, you can copy the title. Codex may just list and grep the sessions files in ~/.claude and filter the one with the name.
I also have the habit of naming my sessions with `/rename`
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I’m working on a project that makes switching between coding harnesses essentially unnoticeable. It’s particularly useful when I run out of credits on any given day
The entire platform is skill driven, and based on the premise that state is your local file system. That makes switching harnesses so easy
It’s all open source and has plenty of other features, including inter agent communication, telegram client and much more in the pipeline
https://www.woltspace.com/
I think having a codebase that can use any harness is the optimal setup. I often switch between harnesses and models all the time at work. We have our state/spec stored in git, so we can pack it up on friday and start fresh on monday. Or more commonly, using gemini/opus to create rich specifications and using Luna to implement them. Then switching again for reviews etc.
Related, have found this handoff skill invaluable for moving tasks between harnesses: https://gist.github.com/ammario/cd57a1d7f6c911e079378c540b38...
I’ve subscribed to chatgpt at 50% off last week and I’m using claude less and less. Not only replies are faster but 20$ plan gives you access to astra.
Not sure how can claude even compete at this point unless openAI seriously downgrade the models to save money.
how'd you get the 50% off?
Good timing too, Just as xiaomi[1] makes their big announcement :D
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792730
Millions of people thought process disrupted.
Posted this in the xiaomi thread, but are folks working in biology / cybersecurity seeing more limits in what Opus (not Fable) is allowing? This has happened quite suddenly for me and I’m stuck in the middle of a project that would have otherwise called for use of Claude.
I’ll be trying these models out and may end up switching my subscriptions if this craziness continues
i was talking to opus the other night about the polio vaccine related stuff (i had been arguing with one of those people who claims the polio vaccine didn't work so i figured i'd use it as an excuse to brush up on some bio/history). i asked it to explain how polio virus was isolated pre PCR and claude hard killed my session citing security reasons (it was talking about stool samples ffs LOL)
In Anthropic excuse, stool samples is bio weapon if you tried too hard
Hell i’m working on ai for board games as a hobby (tfmbot.com) and one of the cards is ‘microbes’. Sent straight back to 4.8 for having that in my code.
Was in the middle of a server firewall change and reboot, killed the kernel, booted me out. Had to sweat the recovery a bit.
Claude is both on the verge of replacing all software devs and keeping a two 9 SLA
Sure, software engineers have less than two nines. :)
Your average dev is sick 7 days a year so it's only natural
10x dev ... so sick 70 days a year is the target
I wonder if I'm being saved by remote working since I think I have three days in the 365 days, and I've also managed to go years without a single sick day.
and the two 9's aren't in order
Excellent news everyone, coding is solved! you can see the results for yourself.
When something happens regularly, is it really front page of HN worthy?
When this happens, how often does it cause us to lose our cached pricing? (when we should be getting the cached price)
Opus 5.5 and fable 5.2 will release tonight.
gpt-6-sol and Aeon (personal agent) on Thursday. Already preceded by a huge week with step, mimo, grok, and jev releases.
Relentless cycle.
In a way it's like the 1980s again, when there were new computers and consoles coming out every week, or the 2000s with all the 3D cards :)
Whoa, no kidding. Takes me back to the MHz wars we had at school and like you said, the card wars. Excellent perspective.
At least after buying 166mmx you didn't get lowered to 133mhz after a month. The progress was legit back then.
Hey I bought a ‘cyrix pr166’ so i’m not too sure about that.
Wow was the 80s really like this? I am interested in AI but it is a bit exhausting to keep up with
Wonder if it had anything to do with this - https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
Apologies for the rant, but why do these things constantly hit the front page? It is not interesting, it's not a discussion, and if you are using the models you probably already know.
HN is already a waterfall of AI meta conversations and bike-shedding, now we have to discuss service outages about the AI too?
Can we talk about stuff people are building again, with or without AI, and stop gasping at every minute detail of LLM service providers.
Everyone is collectively hating on Anthropic, so this news is just adding to the fun.
Gamblers talking about their favorite casino.
I don't know if something changed recently, but I have been getting a lot of stuff "flagged by safeguards" in the last two days.
I am quite confident that what I'm doing is well within the law, and I'm not even doing any kind of pen-testing stuff, just some basic reverse engineering, but I can't even use Fable anymore because every time I enable it, it works for about twenty seconds and makes me drop down to Opus 4.8, and often even down to Sonnet.
If anyone here works at Anthropic, did you make the safeguards super sensitive recently?
What’s the SLA?
I have a deja vu like this happens everytime before they launch a new family of models
You're telling me I have to switch to using my brains tokens now?