HN Thread: 'It Feels Like Claude Goes Down Almost Daily Now' — Practitioner Reliability Concern Surfaces

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An HN thread posted today (19 pts, 5 comments) articulates growing practitioner frustration with Claude's availability, framing the issue as systematic rather than isolated — appearing on the same day as the confirmed Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 degradation incident that drew 6,800+ Downdetector complaints. The thread's framing as a recurring pattern rather than a one-off is the signal: developers are starting to account for Claude downtime as a production dependency risk, not an anomaly. This compounds the single-vendor risk concern as more teams move critical workloads onto Claude Code and the API.