Claude went dark for 3 hours — your fallback chain isn't optional
Claude's global 3-hour outage on July 29 was a capacity failure retries can't fix — here's the fallback chain to build before the next one.
Claude's global 3-hour outage on July 29 was a capacity failure retries can't fix — here's the fallback chain to build before the next one.
Claude Opus 5 tops the Artificial Analysis leaderboard at #1, but its chatty diffs and mid-task questions make it a pain to ship in agent loops.
Claude Sonnet 5 handles terminal and browser agent loops well enough to replace Opus for most tasks — but don't build your budget on the intro pricing.
A price war between OpenAI and Anthropic is good for your bill — but renegotiate, don't migrate. Here's what to ask for and where lock-in bites.