Claude Code Goes Down, Reminding Everyone That AI Developer Tools Are Still Fragile

An outage hit Claude Code, Anthropic's coding assistant, drawing pointed commentary about the reliability gap in tools developers are increasingly building their workflows around.

Claude Code experienced an outage today, as noted by @BitcoinArchive with characteristically subtle commentary: "Claude Code is down. Bitcoin NEVER goes down." The snark aside, the incident highlights a real concern as developers grow more dependent on AI coding tools for daily productivity.

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