Anthropic Postmortem: Three Infrastructure Bugs That Degraded Claude's Response Quality
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Summary
Anthropic provides a detailed technical postmortem of three infrastructure bugs that occurred between August and early September 2023, which intermittently degraded Claude's response quality. The company explains the investigation process, root causes of each bug, why it took time to identify and fix them, and the changes being implemented to prevent similar issues. The article emphasizes that model quality is never intentionally reduced due to demand or time of day.
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We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day
These initial reports were difficult to distinguish from normal variation in user feedback.
By late August, the increasing frequency and persistence of these reports prompted us to open an investigation.
We've now resolved these issues and want to explain what happened.
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