{"id":140444,"date":"2025-09-10T18:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:08:49","slug":"developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers joke about \u201ccoding like cavemen\u201d as AI service suffers major outage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic <a href=\"https:\/\/status.anthropic.com\/incidents\/k6gkm2b8cjk9\">experienced<\/a> a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an hour. The outage affected all three of Anthropic&#8217;s main services simultaneously, with the company posting at 12:28 pm Eastern that &#8220;APIs, Console, and Claude.ai are down. Services will be restored as soon as possible.&#8221; As of press time, the services appear to be restored.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption, though lasting only about 30 minutes, quickly took the top spot on tech link-sharing site Hacker News for a short time and inspired immediate reactions from developers who have become increasingly reliant on AI coding tools for their daily work. &#8220;Everyone will just have to learn how to do it like we did in the old days, and blindly copy and paste from Stack Overflow,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45200522\">joked<\/a> one Hacker News commenter. Another user <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45200398\">recalled<\/a> a joke from a previous AI outage: &#8220;Nooooo I&#8217;m going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The most recent outage came at an inopportune time, affecting developers across the US who have integrated Claude into their workflows. One Hacker News user <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45200333\">observed<\/a>: &#8220;It&#8217;s like every other day, the moment US working hours start, AI (in my case I mostly use Anthropic, others may be better) starts dying or at least getting intermittent errors. In EU working hours there&#8217;s rarely any outages.&#8221; Another user also <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=45200449\">noted<\/a> this pattern, saying that &#8220;early morning here in the UK everything is fine, as soon as most of the US is up and at it, then it slowly turns to treacle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/09\/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/09\/developers-joke-about-coding-like-cavemen-as-ai-service-suffers-major-outage\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday afternoon, Anthropic experienced a brief but complete service outage that took down its AI infrastructure, leaving developers unable to access Claude.ai, the API, Claude Code, or the management console for around half an hour. 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