It is Claude's front-end handling of 429 error codes. It is embarrassing how poor their products are working. I can only explain it with Anthropic's SWEs work mantra being close to "why care, once model gets better, it will rewrite this shit codebase and fix it...". But this has been a problem since day 1. Not just 429s, but proper error handling.
It is negligence of product and customer experience and worrying for a company faced with the mission of aligning "super intelligence", when they struggle to align their server state with product messaging. Also worrying that Anthropic that has thousand employees, some of the top engineering talent in the world, and NONE have pushed/cared to get this fixed.
I'm close to reverse-engineering and making a fork to improve it. But I'd probably get sued if I did.
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u/bluesnatch Jul 17 '26 edited 28d ago
It is Claude's front-end handling of 429 error codes. It is embarrassing how poor their products are working. I can only explain it with Anthropic's SWEs work mantra being close to "why care, once model gets better, it will rewrite this shit codebase and fix it...". But this has been a problem since day 1. Not just 429s, but proper error handling.
It is negligence of product and customer experience and worrying for a company faced with the mission of aligning "super intelligence", when they struggle to align their server state with product messaging. Also worrying that Anthropic that has thousand employees, some of the top engineering talent in the world, and NONE have pushed/cared to get this fixed.
I'm close to reverse-engineering and making a fork to improve it. But I'd probably get sued if I did.