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It’s not a moat, it’s a tiny groove on the sidewalk.

I’ve experienced the same. Even guide markdown files that work well for one model or vendor will work reasonably well for the other.

Which is exactly why these companies are now all focused on building products rather than (or alongside) improving their base models. Claude Code, Cowork, Gemini CLI/Antigravity, Codex - all proprietary and don't allow model swapping (or do with heavy restrictions). As models get more and more commoditized the idea is to enforce lock-in at the app level instead.

Using "low cost" and LLM's in the same sentence is kind of funny to me.

The switching cost is so low that I find it's easier and better value to have two $20/mo subscription from different providers than a $200/mo subscription with the frontier model of the month. Reliability and model diversity are a bonus.

I genuinely don't know how any of these companies can make extreme profit for this reason. If a company makes a significantly better model, shouldn't it be able to explain how it's better to any competitor?

Google succeeded because it understood the web better than its competitors. I don't see how any of the players in this space could be so much better that they could take over the market. It seems like these companies will create commodities, which can be profitable, but also incredibly risky for early investors and don't make the profits that would be necessary to justify the evaluations of today.

> It's pretty rare that switching costs are THAT low in technology!

Look harder. Swapping usb devices (mouse,…) takes even less time. Switching wifi is also easy. Switching browser works the same. I can equally use vim/emacs/vscode/sublime/… for programming.

on some agents you just switch the model and carry on.

Except Kimi Agent via website is hard to replace - I tried the same task in Claude Code, Codex, and Kimi Agent - the results for office tasks are incomparable. The versions from Anthropic and OpenAI are far behind.

Gives you a good window into a vibe coder's mentality. They do not care about anything except what they want to get done. If something is in the way, they will just try to brute force it until it works, not giving a duck if they are being an inconvenience to others. They're not aware of existing guidelines/conventions/social norms and they couldn't care less.

Wow are these submitted automatically by claude code? I'm not comfortable with the level of details they have (user's anthropic email, full path of the project they were working on, stack traces...)

and every single one of them checked "I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet"

It's wild that people check the box

> I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet

when the first 50 issues are about 500 error.

This is the kind of abuse that will cause them to just close GitHub issues.

Or they'll have to put something in the system prompt to handle this special case where it first checks for existing bugs and just upvotes it, rather than creating a new one.

I've made a feature request there to add another GitHub Actions bot to auto-close issues reporting errors like this when an outage is happening. Would definitely help to cut through the noise.

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22848

There has to be some sort of automation making these issues, to many of them are identical but posted by different people.

Also love how many have the “I searched for issues” checked which is clearly a lie.

Does Claude code make issue reports automatically? (And then how exactly would it be doing that if Anthropic was down when the use of LLM in the report is obvious )

That's what happens when people outsource their mental capacity to a machine

Github issues will be the real social network for AI agents, no humans allowed!

Goes to show that nobody reads error messages and it reminds me of this old blogpost:

> A kid knocks on my office door, complaining that he can't login. 'Have you forgotten your password?' I ask, but he insists he hasn't. 'What was the error message?' I ask, and he shrugs his shoulders. I follow him to the IT suite. I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box opens up, but the kid clicks OK so quickly that I don't have time to read the message. He repeats this process three times, as if the computer will suddenly change its mind and allow him access to the network. On his third attempt I manage to get a glimpse of the message. I reach behind his computer and plug in the Ethernet cable. He can't use a computer.

http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-comput...

Couldn't have happened to a better Repo, I needed that chuckle.

Thats exactly what they Anthropic deserves (btw they cant even get Anthropic on github lmao, this must be the biggest company having to run with wrong ID on github)

I’m sure there are plenty of tools you rely on as an “engineer” as well

Code quality increased.

OR just take some time off from the grind to enjoy your life.

As best as I can tell, there was less than 10 minutes from the last successful request I made and when the downtime was added to their status page - and I'm not particularly crazy with my usage or anything, the gap could have been less than that.

Honestly, that seems okay to me. Certainly better than what AWS usually does.

https://status.claude.com/

what do you mean it's right there. Judging by the Github issues it only took them 10 minutes to add the issue message.

Aren't most developers accessing Anthropic's models via vscode/github? It takes seconds to switch to a different model. Today I'm using Gemini.

The entire AI hype was started because Silicon Valley wanted a new SaaS product to keep themselves afloat, notice that LLMs started getting pushed right after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.

That will be one strange way to release a model.

it is not, sounds like an issue with AWS

OpenClaw agents on Anthropic API taking an unscheduled coffee break.

Because they update it everyday and the team has not heard about something called stability. This is direct result of Move fast and break too many things all at once.

In other news: https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthro...

i just checked; no version 5 models listed in claude code yet

is back online

I had to scroll way too far for this. Thank you for your service.

Not much, what's up with you?

Not much. Anthropic was down. What's up with you?

Unless of course your job is writing an agent that uses an Anthropic model.

Not much, what’s up with you?

I hear you on the west coast, but two thirds of the population lives east of the Mississippi and is in working hours

Ah yes, because only the west coast of a single country are the priority for a globally distributed company.

Yikes man.

Just a healthy reminder that places outside of the USA exist.

The usual impetus is that the official status pages habitually under report and sharing the status page showing the best information gives a basis to form a place to have discussion about where/how/why it was down. Unfortunately, many seem to take the other interpretation instead and said discussion often ends up being low quality in a self fulfilling loop of reasons.

The second note probably deserves to be a separate comment.

Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.

A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.

Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.

This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.

It’s more about the ensuing discussion.

I don't use it but I'd like to know even if it's just entertainment value. But I can imgine people who intend to use it learn something from it: redundancy must be part of their strategy like you said.

Completely agree, not to mention it was down for couple of minutes. Who even cares?

Everybody who uses anything knows that it's down

So what value does it add saying "X is down" anywhere?

It's just for discussion, you can't just ignore it and not talk about it with anyone if a particular service is down and posts like this are pretty common on hn and i haven't seen anyone complaining, it's you being overly critical, yes