[MontyCarloHall]

Right. If this were truly a pure scaling issue, I’d expect the interface would offer an archive.is-esque “Claude is at capacity; your prompt is #XXX/YYY in the queue; estimated time remaining: ZZZ seconds”

Instead, the whole system just shits the bed, catastrophically.

[SoftTalker]

But such messages would suggest that Claude has engineered limits, which isn't what the market wants to hear. Completely falling over and being unavailable is just another Tuesday on the internet, will be forgotten by the weekend.

[georgemcbay]

> being unavailable is just another Tuesday on the internet, will be forgotten by the weekend.

This is true when you have like one failure a year, but Anthropic is starting to look a lot like github lately when it comes to uptime.

After a certain point the reputation for unreliability starts sticking to you, especially when you position yourself as an indispensable tool for completing work people need done.

[matltc]

Yeah to those of us who are on the know, but maybe it can be spun as "Claude adoption breaks the internet" to the consumer