Pro Tip: Do Your Vibe-Breaks When Anthropic Services Are Unavailable

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When you’re deep in a vibe-coding session and suddenly hit a service outage — don’t fight it. Take the break.

Today I had another round of hiccups with Anthropic services. Requests timing out, responses not coming through. That’s the hard life when you only have one subscription and no backup model to fall back on.

But here’s the reframe: service outages are forced vibe-breaks.

Use them to:

• Step away from the screen
• Get some water or coffee
• Let your subconscious process the problem
• Touch grass (optional but recommended)

The code will still be there when the service comes back. And you might return with fresh eyes and a better solution than you were grinding toward.

Embrace the downtime. Your brain (and your subscription) will thank you.