I suspect they're highly oversubscribed, thus the reason why we're seeing them do other things to cut down on inference cost (ie changing their default thinking length).
Engineer roles dead in 6 months.
You're never gonna guess what software engineers do.
I'm not an internet marketer but that sounds like a win win to me. People feel special, they get extra hype, and the service isn't broken.
In the case of Anthropic is fake availability.
Sam Altman explained the idea is to scale the thing up, and see what happens.
He hadn't claimed to offer a solution to the supply problem that would unfold.
Disclosure: I have scars from a distributed system where errors propagated outwards and took down auth...
The dynamic thinking and response length is funny enough the best upgrade I've experienced with the service for more than a year. I really appreciate that when I say or ask something simple the answer now just comes back as a single sentence without having to manually toggle "concise" mode on and off again.
B. Everything is down, even auth.
