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prodigycorp 51 minutes ago [-]
Can I take a moment to complain about Anthropic's insistence on using a magic email link for login in the year 2026? It's so unnecessary. Please, anthropic team. Just allow us to user username/password/2FA.
dweekly 22 minutes ago [-]
Passkeys are the 2026 answer. No (added) username, no password, no two factor SMS, no phishing.
teej 47 seconds ago [-]
Passkeys are auth garbage. Normal users do not benefit from overly complex auth.
jwr 4 minutes ago [-]
Until you lose your device or it breaks suddenly.
mikepurvis 50 seconds ago [-]
I store passkeys and totps in 1Password. I know it means there's no hardware protection of the secure element, but in return they're trivially synced across my devices.
I feel this tradeoff is worth it to me; certainly it is no worse than email or SMS as the second factor.
radicality 29 minutes ago [-]
Oh yes, upvoting, my top annoyance with anthropic too, email links are a bit ridiculous as a login mechanism.
Anytime I have to login again, it’s the ridiculous dance of figuring out what surface I’m logging into and how to get the magic link to open there, and not mistakenly somewhere else. Never a problem with openAI - input password and 2FA - done, logged in.
post-it 24 minutes ago [-]
I support not storing any kind of password, but they should add passkey support.
n4r9 39 minutes ago [-]
Email link is way more convenient than a 2FA text, surely? It means you don't need to remember credentials or have your phone with you.
marketneutral 31 minutes ago [-]
On iOS and macOS 2FAs are auto-populated for you, and of course also your saved login and password. You don't need to leave the page and open other applications.
This is by far the most common sign-in UX. So is there some security benefit in the email link sign-in?
TOTP works just fine and you can save it in a password manager if you like. Email links don't allow me to use a keyboard shortcut to login, instead I have to open a new tab and click around for a magic code/url.
jwr 29 minutes ago [-]
It is terrible, slow, assumes that I receive my E-mail instantly (what if I use greylisting?), makes me check my E-mail when I don't want to.
This as opposed to my password manager filling in the password field within a second or so.
But they know it's terrible. The reason they do it is to make account sharing more difficult.
jen20 31 minutes ago [-]
But less convenient than a TOTP generator in your password app.
butILoveLife 49 minutes ago [-]
I love it. I forget my passwords.
NiloCK 3 minutes ago [-]
Moving fast, through the dark, wearing wiley coyote jet-powered roller skates, while simultaneously somehow gathering and smelling many previously undocumented specimens of rose along the way.
Not too surprising that stuff is often broken. I just wish it was more often broken in my favor!
(This wish is not abstract - my account had been bugged for 8 months+ to not experience any weekly usage metering. It only fixed itself a few days ago when my annual bill came through).
embedding-shape 2 minutes ago [-]
> (This wish is not abstract - my account had been bugged for 8 months+ to not experience any weekly usage metering. It only fixed itself a few days ago when my annual bill came through).
Rare self-confession so openly?
sveme 1 hours ago [-]
Anthropic's domain usage (there's claude.com, claude.ai, console.anthropic.com, platform.claude.com, claudecode.io forwarding to codeagents.app which errors) and authentication approach have been lacking a lot; hope this isn't a verdict on their use of agentic coding.
Example: I had two orgs with similar names, one I set up myself and another my employer set up. Logged in via SSO. Once I deleted the one I created myself, I could not log in anymore with the notice that the org was scheduled for deletion. Could also not contact support as that required a login. Only when the org was deleted after a week and my employer deleted me and reinvited me I could access it again.
Quite the shitshow for a company worth a couple hundred billion.
jwr 2 minutes ago [-]
Can we all just stop for a moment and admire the lingo?
"Elevated errors" -> translation: our stuff is totally broken
Everybody started saying "elevated errors" instead of "outage", because it sounds better. It's the same thing as every aircraft problem being an "electrical issue".
elliotlarson 37 minutes ago [-]
I feel like this is a pretty big fumble for Anthropic. I don't mind waiting 30 minutes or so for a service that's having issues. But, around the 2 hour mark, I start researching alternatives. I think like almost every other developer I've been working on my own AI assisted project management system. It was built around Claude Code, but now I'm using my down time adding in support for Gemini and Codex.
M4R5H4LL 10 minutes ago [-]
per ChatGPT, it becomes cost effective (against the $200/mo usage tier) to acquire an RTX 6000 Pro if heavily (+8 hrs/day) after around 2 years (at $0.20/kwh which is lower than cal residential rates). I am interested in alternatives too but I haven't found anything close to Claude Code.
dgunay 18 minutes ago [-]
It's not going to kill anyone to just switch to a different provider, even for just a few hours. Bad news for Anthropic if their users suddenly realize Claude Code isn't really that much better than the others though.
KronisLV 35 minutes ago [-]
I wonder where's the post mortem that goes like: "Our auth solution isn't scalable enough, so here's how we implemented a better one."
vimda 17 minutes ago [-]
These reliability issues are starting to feel like a pretty big indictment of their product, which they are presumably using to write their software and build their systems. If _Anthropic_ can't make Claude build reliable systems, what hope do the rest of us have?
gensym 2 minutes ago [-]
I've wondered the same. Back when Antrhopic seemed like a niche alternative to OpenAI, I signed up for an account. Now that my company is using it heavily, I tried to change the account owner to on of the executives, and apparently that's not possible! It's also not possible to create separate work/personal accounts unless you have two different phone numbers.
I'm genuinely confused about the disconnect between "we have this magic box that can write all the software we'd ever want" and their inability to have basic account management functionality.
mkw5053 1 hours ago [-]
I had codex read my cc chat histories and am back up and running there.
newbie578 23 minutes ago [-]
Still down, looks like it will be down for the whole day. Looks like time to call it a day...
dionian 12 minutes ago [-]
i got back in half an hour ago or so. concerning that its still happening
zurfer 1 hours ago [-]
this takes long enough for me to give codex a new try
yomismoaqui 42 minutes ago [-]
As a cheap user that only uses the 20$ month subscriptions I started with Claude Code as main & Codex as backup when the 5 hour quota was exhausted.
Then I saw that Codex worked better for me and cancelled my Claude Code subscription. And now for my moderate use (4-5 hours a day with no parallel agents) I have enough with Codex $20 and AMP free if I want to save some weekly quota.
But honestly I usually have enough usage to last the full week without using AMP.
winrid 1 hours ago [-]
seriously, it's been going on for two hours, how complicated is their auth system?
ta988 49 minutes ago [-]
They can't fix it if claude code isn't up, nobody understands the code anymore. /s(a little)
gku 56 minutes ago [-]
oauth `redirect_url` points to localhost, so the login redirect hangs
walls 32 minutes ago [-]
Isn't that just how oauth is done when a local app wants to be notified after login?
earleybird 51 minutes ago [-]
someone vibed a production push
xienze 45 minutes ago [-]
The definition of "works on my system."
rvz 1 hours ago [-]
"AGI" is going to make a lot of so-called senior software engineers look like interns who are unable to read or write code by hand.
Having to wait for a Distinguished Engineer named "Claude" to come back from their 2 hour break to fix their issue.
I tried using the Github VSCode Copilot because I have some credits. It will be better to wait for Claude Code to be fixed. In other words, Claude Code broken is still orders of magnitude better than Github VSCode Copilot.
ai4mathlogicrsn 1 hours ago [-]
This says more about Microsoft’s Quality than about Anthropic’s Reliability.
monkaiju 57 minutes ago [-]
Guess the folks LARPing as devs will continue to be even less productive than usual today. Honestly its probably for the best that they can shove this slop into the codebase though.
rvz 6 minutes ago [-]
It's quite amusing to see so-called "developers" waiting for their 10x engineer called "Claude" to hand hold them like interns who can't read or write any code when it goes and takes a break for 2 hours.
Codex was taking a nap for 8 hours [0] recently with many of the interns here complaining that it is "down".
I feel this tradeoff is worth it to me; certainly it is no worse than email or SMS as the second factor.
This is by far the most common sign-in UX. So is there some security benefit in the email link sign-in?
TOTP works just fine and you can save it in a password manager if you like. Email links don't allow me to use a keyboard shortcut to login, instead I have to open a new tab and click around for a magic code/url.
This as opposed to my password manager filling in the password field within a second or so.
But they know it's terrible. The reason they do it is to make account sharing more difficult.
Not too surprising that stuff is often broken. I just wish it was more often broken in my favor!
(This wish is not abstract - my account had been bugged for 8 months+ to not experience any weekly usage metering. It only fixed itself a few days ago when my annual bill came through).
Rare self-confession so openly?
Example: I had two orgs with similar names, one I set up myself and another my employer set up. Logged in via SSO. Once I deleted the one I created myself, I could not log in anymore with the notice that the org was scheduled for deletion. Could also not contact support as that required a login. Only when the org was deleted after a week and my employer deleted me and reinvited me I could access it again.
Quite the shitshow for a company worth a couple hundred billion.
"Elevated errors" -> translation: our stuff is totally broken
Everybody started saying "elevated errors" instead of "outage", because it sounds better. It's the same thing as every aircraft problem being an "electrical issue".
I'm genuinely confused about the disconnect between "we have this magic box that can write all the software we'd ever want" and their inability to have basic account management functionality.
Then I saw that Codex worked better for me and cancelled my Claude Code subscription. And now for my moderate use (4-5 hours a day with no parallel agents) I have enough with Codex $20 and AMP free if I want to save some weekly quota.
But honestly I usually have enough usage to last the full week without using AMP.
Having to wait for a Distinguished Engineer named "Claude" to come back from their 2 hour break to fix their issue.
I tried using the Github VSCode Copilot because I have some credits. It will be better to wait for Claude Code to be fixed. In other words, Claude Code broken is still orders of magnitude better than Github VSCode Copilot.
Codex was taking a nap for 8 hours [0] recently with many of the interns here complaining that it is "down".
[0] https://status.openai.com/incidents/01KK9JA8JKQKDW1W24T09NHB...