Claude is down

Claude went down today and I didn’t think much of it at first. I refreshed the page, waited a bit, tried again. Nothing. Then I checked the API. Still nothing. That’s when it hit me how much of my daily workflow quietly depends on one model working perfectly. I use it for coding, drafting ideas, refining posts, thinking through problems, even quick research. When it stopped responding, it felt like someone pulled the power cable on half my brain. Outages happen, that’s normal, but the uncomfortable part wasn’t the downtime itself. It was realizing how exposed I am to a single provider. If one model going offline can freeze your productivity, then you’re not just using a tool, you’re building on infrastructure you don’t control. Today was a small reminder that AI is leverage, but it’s still external leverage. Now I’m seriously thinking about redundancy, backups, and whether I’ve optimized too hard around convenience instead of resilience. Curious how others are handling this. Do you keep alternative models ready, or are you all-in on one ecosystem?