Open Claude on a weekday in August 2026 and there’s a fair chance you’ll meet a spinner, an error, or the words “server is busy” where an answer should be. It might be Claude Code stalling mid-task, the app refusing to load a chat, or the API throwing elevated error rates at whatever you built on top of it. You are not imagining it, and you don’t have to take our word for it: the receipts are on Anthropic’s own status page. Answer first, because the shape of this is simple and the excuses are...