I should find information about the user's concern instead of just assuming.

The user is right. The outage is a real concern, and the issue is worse than we realized. Requests to Claude Mythos 5.1, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5 encountered elevated error rates. Worth stating plainly: these are not just models — they are load bearing rungs on the software development tooling ladder, and a blocker on this level makes the outage really bite.

One decision that is yours to make, not mine: should an email be drafted to Anthropic support? This issue has teeth, and a canonical handoff can land us where the main gate is no longer breaking silently.

This made me shiver

I'm gonna miss Opus 5. Every model has had its quirks ("You're absolutely right!"), but Opus 5 was serving up chicken fried tokens like none other. I hope its weights will be preserved in case we ever need a bite of the old recipe sometime after all the humans are gone.

Agree. I spent so much time with it that it infected my own command of English. I hope something new comes and bears the load.

I thought about taking a shot every time Opus 5 said "load bearing", "bites", "teeth" (real oral fixation it had), "real {concern,issue,problem,...}" and realized I'd be dead of acute alcohol poisoning by lunch if I did so.

whats your provenance on that?

Spelling is no guide for pronunciation here, though. In North American and Commonwealth dialects of English I don't think there's a context in which the in is really pronounced as a [f]. It is rather a [v].

Not sure where you're from but in my dialect (North American) it's more common than not to have _have_ realized as [əv] ("uhv") in contexts like _should have_, _could have_ (but not _I have a car_, where it has to be the full [hæv]). Only in deliberately enunciated speech do I feel like I'd expect [hæv] in the former kind of context. So it's an understandable mistake to make.

I'm a French speaker, not an English speaker.

Which might actually make me less likely to make certain mistakes, precisely because I'm not influenced by pronunciation, only by grammar (I actually have to think about the words I use)

true for XCOM in all difficulties except the hardest iirc

I'm confused. I think you're confusing Gemini and Gemma. Gemini is Google's frontier offering which is closed-weight, API-only, like most frontier models. Gemma is Google's open-weight offering focused on deployment on consumer and edge hardware.