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Claude AI down: Anthropic users hit with errors as chatbot goes offline
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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I glanced across one once, I doubt any of the demographics are entirely reliable, but even with the uncertainty it appears that programmers are but a small minority even among Claude users.
what's everyone else doing then? isn't it specifically for code?
I know a family that uses it to write sappy greeting card type mini-novels to each other.
Others use it to make graphic promotional flyers (give me a flyer describing this event, time place, activities and illustrate it with pictures of geckos and calla lillies...)
Some (bad) colleagues at work use it to summarize their e-mail inbox, and draft replies when warranted.
I know a woman who has been teaching "Creative Writing" at an online university for 10 years. Her past two crops of students are 99% using it to write their papers.
I'm sure there are day-traders out there using it all kinds of ways to try to gain advantage in the markets.
Customer support is a big one (reading the manuals to the customers) and, sadly, customer engagement - constant contact type messages.
A friend of ours recently took a 3 week vacation in Ireland, gave AI some "hard constraints" that they had to meet and let it plan out their routing, lodging, car rental, train fares, etc.
ew :(
Yeah.