Developers joke about “coding like cavemen” as AI service suffers major outage

Anthropic experienced a brief outage that affected its AI infrastructure, causing disruption to services like Claude.ai, the API, and Claude Code for around 30 minutes. The outage, which impacted all three main services simultaneously, led to developers joking about reverting to old-school coding methods like copying from Stack Overflow. The incident, though short-lived, garnered attention on Hacker News and highlighted the reliance of developers on AI coding tools. The outage affected US developers using Claude in their workflows, with some noting a pattern of issues coinciding with US working hours. Services have since been restored.