As people woke up in the early morning hours of Monday, March 2, 2026, many Claude users experienced widespread service disruptions.
Thousands of users reported issues with Anthropic’s popular AI chatbot and its coding platform, Claude Code, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.
While the exact cause of the outage remains unclear, Anthropic said there were “elevated errors” affecting some services in an initial status update, Bloomberg reports.
According to updates posted on Anthropic’s website, the company began investigating the issue at 11:49 a.m. UTC.
At 1:37 p.m. UTC, the company said, “We have discovered that some API methods are not working,” noting that they were continuing to investigate, per its website. By 3:25 p.m. UTC, it added, “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.” As of 3:50 p.m. UTC, the incident has been resolved.
How Claude And Claude Code Became Central To AI Workflows
The outage comes after Claude Code creator, Boris Cherny, touted the platform’s effectiveness during a Feb. 19, 2026, appearance on “Lenny’s Podcast,” hosted by Lenny Rachitsky.
During the interview, Cherny said Claude Code has essentially “solved” coding, AFROTECH™ previously reported. He predicted that software engineers could largely phase out by the end of 2026.
“I think by the end of the year, everyone is going to be a product manager, and everyone codes. The title software engineer is going to start to go away,” Cherny said. “It’s just going to be replaced by ‘builder,’ and it’s going to be painful for a lot of people.”
Anthropic released Claude Code in 2025. The agentic system can autonomously execute high-level programming tasks with minimal human intervention, as AFROTECH™ reported.
Cherny shared on “Lenny’s Podcast” that he has not manually edited a single line of code since November 2025, instead turning to Claude Code. He believes that many companies and individual developers could soon rely on similar tools to do the same.
For semi-technical users and non-coders, Anthropic has also released Cowork, which can take autonomous action without programming knowledge. The AI tool can handle daily management and organizational tasks, AFROTECH™ noted.
“I think a lot of the people that will be rewarded the most over the next few years, they won’t just be AI native, and they don’t just know how to use these tools really well, but also they’re curious and they’re generalists, and they cross over multiple disciplines and can think about the broader problem they’re solving rather than just the engineering part of it,” Cherny said.
AI has become increasingly embedded in everyday life, with tech leaders like Cherny urging workers to embrace it. Monday’s outage serves as a reminder of just how dependent many have become on tools like Claude and Claude Code.
