TLDR
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Claude Status Page is reporting elevated error rates on Opus 4.6 and 4.7, with Claude API and Claude Code under investigation.
Key Takeaways
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The incident is active and marked as investigating on May 15, 2026 UTC.
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Affected surfaces include
api.anthropic.com and Claude Code.
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The extracted status text gives no root cause or mitigation yet.
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The preview and incident title both point to degraded reliability on Opus 4.6 and 4.7, not a model rollout note.
Hacker News Comment Review
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Commenters immediately noticed the error pattern extends beyond Opus into Sonnet, suggesting broader backend or capacity issues.
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One practical concern is retry amplification: exponential backoff can still create load spikes if many clients keep retrying overloaded errors.
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Several replies framed this as a reliability and vendor-dependence problem for teams building cloud-first coding workflows.
Notable Comments
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@gopalv: Saw
overloaded_error on Sonnet too, plus a cache hit-rate spike before the failures.
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@lepuski: Claimed
Codex outperforms it and has much larger quotas for heavy coding use.
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@cyanydeez: Warned that cloud-only development breaks down when the service fails.
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