Claude Under Pressure: Outage, Quality Complaints, and a Cache TTL Developers Reverse-Engineered
Three separate Anthropic stories broke on April 13, and read together they form a single narrative: developer trust in Claude is under sustained pressure, from reliability to quality to transparency. The Outage Claude.ai went down. Not for long — the incident lasted from 15:31 to 16:19 UTC, roughly 48 minutes — but the timing and the way Anthropic communicated it added fuel to an already active fire. The official status page described “elevated error rates” affecting both Claude.ai and Claude Code, attributing it to “capacity-balancing measures.” ...