Claude Opus, Code crippled by global outage

This is more than a technical blip; it represents a scaling crisis for the AI-native developer stack that exposes the fragility of modern toolchains. Service disruptions peaking between May 14 and 15 rendered the Claude.ai interface, CLI tools, and GitHub Copilot synchronization temporarily unusable. Infrastructure pressure appears to stem from a massive 17x year-on-year increase in API volume, indicating that capacity planning has lagged significantly behind viral adoption rates. Reliability concerns are further compounded by reports of token inflation and instruction-following regressions in the Opus 4.7 model, while poor transparency regarding status updates has eroded developer trust. The incident is driving a broader shift toward multi-LLM redundancy as developers look to prevent local toolchains from becoming single points of failure.