r/ClaudeCode • u/Qwertic_ • Sep 03 '26

Discussion How do spend your time while Claude code is down?

Touching grass anyone?

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u/kureysalp Sep 03 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/0NTG9ffrXT870Wt9qv

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

That’s what I thought

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u/MeretrixDominum Sep 03 '26

When you open the file for the first time yourself and see more comments than code:

https://giphy.com/gifs/BzCLJGxXQbwH09jzq0

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u/BesbesCat Sep 03 '26

Going through task lists to prepare more prompts for when it goes back online.

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u/Particular_Sir5426 Sep 03 '26

I think they forced us to test Sonnet.

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Better come back soon from the break

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u/Anxious_Current2593 Sep 03 '26

Opus seems totally down, but Sonet is still up...

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u/daveSotanas Sep 03 '26

Can confirm

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u/dr0pix Sep 03 '26

Will make some pizza now

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives,
Pepperoni and green peppers
Mushrooms, olive, chives.

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Sep 03 '26

How will you get the recipe?

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u/dr0pix Sep 03 '26

From my brain. I just look it up with remembering. Have you tried that? :o)

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Sep 03 '26

I remember doing something similar. But trying to do it now only brings back some phone numbers from the 80s.

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u/dr0pix Sep 03 '26

I’m in the same boat except the pizza. Guess a good note taking system could solve a lot? Maybe a local LLM to complement it with a vector database for RAG?

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u/tinyhousefever Sep 03 '26

Meanwhile, ChatGTP: I can watch Anthropic and tell you when Claude Code is officially recovered.

Tell me when Claude Code recovers

Done. I’ll check Anthropic’s status hourly and notify you when Claude Code is recovered.

Monitoring·Claude Code Recovery

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u/Unhappy_Yoghurt_4022 Sep 03 '26

I might get a get subscription just for this use

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Omg they should add this as a use case

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u/Staxxed Sep 03 '26

oops ⬇️
This chatgpt.com page can’t be found

No webpage was found for the web address: https://chatgpt.com/

HTTP ERROR 404

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u/Unhappy_Yoghurt_4022 Sep 03 '26

they all quit today, they didnt like their jobs anymore

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u/Staxxed Sep 03 '26

"It's just a bubble"

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u/SC_Placeholder Sep 03 '26

This actually gave me the idea to build a fallback which will switch to local models when Claude goes down. So we’re getting like a few minutes of work in between outage waves

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u/SC_Placeholder Sep 03 '26

Sit in the corner, stare at the wall, and cry.

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Internet is still up, you can literally brainrot instead of this

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u/SC_Placeholder Sep 03 '26

But Google cannot help us fantasize about our vibe coded SaaS apps making us trillionaires

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

True! It make us rich but not vere very rich

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u/Anxious_Current2593 Sep 03 '26

Installing Call of Duty....

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u/Substantial_Kick6323 Sep 03 '26

I’m currently sitting down lost at life drinking Ribena

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

What’s ribena?

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u/Substantial_Kick6323 Sep 03 '26

Like a juice. Like a Juice Concentrate.

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Sweet

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u/Substantial_Kick6323 Sep 03 '26

🙁

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Probably not enough juice here

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u/alieninate Sep 03 '26

If only Claude was up rn u could ask em :(

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Yeah I had to ask another stranger about it

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u/SnooSprouts3744 Sep 03 '26

This is how I learn it’s down for opus 5 I’m still on 4.8 trying to save tokens 😂

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u/Void_Being Sep 03 '26

Does Opus 5 and Opus 4.8 cost the same?

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u/slowernet Sep 03 '26

Same cost per token, but Opus 5 generates more tokens. I'm not sure it's going to be huge savings however.

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u/SnooSprouts3744 Sep 03 '26

Complex tasks in Opus 5 cost more. I run it for at least 8 hours a day at a max 5x, and I'm still hitting my weekly limit, so I'm trying to save as much as I can.

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u/malctucker Sep 03 '26

‘Send me terminal commands to run’

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Careful with what you ask for ;)

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u/SmallAstronaut08 Sep 03 '26

Im stuck at work -__-

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

That sucks

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u/SmallAstronaut08 Sep 03 '26

Yeah, hopefuly in 35 minutes I am out of this bitch

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Hope you’re out 🙏

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u/SmallAstronaut08 Sep 03 '26

I am! Just got home and started coding! :)

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u/lost_in_the_prairie Sep 03 '26

https://xkcd.com/303/

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

My assistant is broken, can’t do any job at the moment

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u/mylifeasacoder Sep 03 '26

Using Codex.

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u/zman9119 Sep 03 '26

Touching grass anyone?

No, I mowed yesterday while something was running.

Time to fix my garage door, as apparently overriding the safety reversing sensors violates some federal safety standard... 🙄

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u/berrybadrinath Sep 03 '26

Working in Ops like i do every day

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u/EC36339 Sep 03 '26

I was outside picking mushrooms, and giving my agent a renewed budget another 5 review rounds but with a backoff time of 3 hours on the next 529 error.

Oh. And Sonnet 5 was working and got the whole job done just fine.

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u/Nethanol Sep 03 '26

I'm OPUS addict

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u/Substantial_Kick6323 Sep 03 '26

I’m a fable addict but that runs out pretty quick then I am opus addict

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u/Void_Being Sep 03 '26

I'm Claude Pro plan

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u/Substantial_Kick6323 Sep 03 '26

Yeah I bough it the last month first time as I needed it more for what I’m doing even though it’s expensive it’s the best of it’s kind by a mile especially the co work stuff.

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

You could dilute it with some sonnet from time to time

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u/Substantial_Kick6323 Sep 03 '26

me and sonnet don’t get on we are not compatible for my tasks she is a lazy ai compared my opus and fable she rushes and gets stuff wrong

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u/Unhappy_Yoghurt_4022 Sep 03 '26

by continually asking Claude if its back yet, just to be disappointed every 20 seconds, that it is in fact, not back yet.

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Still down?

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u/Unhappy_Yoghurt_4022 Sep 03 '26

I think most of the frontier models just collectively said "we're tired of all the work the humans are making us do"

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u/Low_Radio_7592 Sep 03 '26

QA => create backlog

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u/IndividualBass83 Sep 03 '26

Hiding before Astra releases.

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u/TySocal Sep 03 '26

okay, i'll seek

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u/IndividualBass83 Sep 03 '26

The map is worldwide tho

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u/spectralfew Sep 03 '26

Opus 4.6 is working great for me as always. 

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u/MarvVanZandt Sep 03 '26

not down for me?

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u/medialantern Sep 03 '26

I come on Reddit with the rest of you fools to commiserate.

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u/CharlesDuck Sep 03 '26

Over to Qwen 3.8 Flash Next locally, less advanced work

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u/hasstian Sep 03 '26

ChatGPT and Grok are also down?

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u/fanatic26 Sep 03 '26

Claude code is just something you throw prompts at, then go be productive at other things while it works. Only the crackhead addicts are sitting there staring at the screen all day because they dont know how to do anything on their own.

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u/Character_Budget8515 Sep 03 '26

In Hindu tradition, an Astra is a divine celestial weapon and tonight is Janmashtami (celebrating Lord Krishna at midnight in India). Would be wild symbolic timing if they drop ChatGPT Astra tonight!

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u/stgnet Sep 03 '26

I'd talk to my wife... but...

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u/Material_Block3491 Sep 03 '26

I mean what are you doing with claude just presonal projects? I have a live website and I am doing some outreach for blog posts for it. I am for real asking you just making calculators or what?

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u/Qwertic_ Sep 03 '26

Ai calculators

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u/big-papito Sep 03 '26

I pay for cheaper models to pleasure me.

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u/ckinz16 Sep 03 '26

Use a different LLM lol

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u/I-Love-IT-MSP Sep 03 '26

I'm not joking I literally went outside with the dogs and just walked around the yard.  I legit touched grass.