This is almost certainly a software issue, though. Even if it's due to scaling, they still built a system that failed catastrophically rather than degrading gracefully.
I'm not saying Anthropic isn't to blame for a system that is literally approaching one-nine uptime; they certainly are. I am saying that jumping to the "it must be vibe coding's fault" is an emotional confirmation-bias belief, not an evidence-based belief.
You mean like returning 529s and operating with reduced QoS?
Instead, the whole system just shits the bed, catastrophically.
This is true when you have like one failure a year, but Anthropic is starting to look a lot like github lately when it comes to uptime.
After a certain point the reputation for unreliability starts sticking to you, especially when you position yourself as an indispensable tool for completing work people need done.