By the time San Francisco comes online, your day is already done.
replyThis is exactly my experience. It’s like Claude Code had a stroke during lunch, and when I return working it forgot how anything works.
replyYeah, also the CI queues start to get longer towards the end of the EU day as the Americans start their day.
replyFunnier still it goes to shit late at night for me in the US (like 1am+) because I assume India is getting online. Can't win.
replyAgreed, early morning here in the UK everything is fine, as soon as most of the US is up and at it, then it slowly turn to treacle. I've been testing z.ai for the past week and it's nowhere near as suceptible, fwiw.
replyTo back up that observation:
replyI've seen a LOT of commentary on social media that Anthropic models (Claude / Opus) seem to degrade in capability when the US starts it's workday vs when the US is asleep.
And on the flip side, the status page literally says:
reply> Importantly, we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors, and the issues mentioned above stem from unrelated bugs.
keyword: intentionally
replythe statement is carefully worded to avoid the true issue: an influx of traffic resulting in service quality unintentionally degrading
I wasn't trying to say they intentionally do it.
replyI was trying to say that systemic issues (such as load capacity) seem to degrade the models in US working hours and has been noticed by a non-zero number of users (myself included).
Funny, my friend told me the same thing happens to Figma.
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