Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

sh1mmer 218 points 294 comments April 07, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

nurettin

It started again.

ajb92

The trend on the status page[1] does not inspire confidence. Beginning to wonder if this might be a daily thing. [1] https://status.claude.com/

HoldOnAMinute

I solved this by upgrading Claude Code, closing down all instances, closing my browser, starting claude again, and doing a /login

ai_slop_hater

Codex is pretty good, and it is written in Rust.

mvkel

Mounting evidence that claude max users are put into one big compute fuel pool. Demand increased dramatically with OpenAI's DoD PR snafu (even though Anth was already working with the DoD? But I digress...). The pool hit a ceiling. Anth has no compute left to give. Hence people maxing out after 1 query. "Working on it" means finding a way to distill Claude Code that isn't enough of a quality degradation to be noticed[0], in order to get the compute pool operational again. The distillation will continue until uptime improves. 0 as of this writing, it's noticeable. Lots of "should I continue?" And "you should run this command if you want to see that information." Roadblocks that I hadn't seen in a year+

honeycrispy

The solution is clearly more vibe coding at anthropic. I doubt even the core engineers know how to begin debugging that spaghetti code.

giancarlostoro

Looks to be sourced from an outage: https://status.claude.com/

baq

Not sure how Claude and CC has become the defacto best model given gpt 5.3 codex and 5.4 exist. This space moves so fast you should be testing your workflows on different models at least once every quarter, prudently once a month.

CapmCrackaWaka

If anthropic‘s reliability becomes a meme, they risk brand death like Microsoft. Go to hand it to them though, they’re really living that “AI writes all of our code and it should write your code too” life.

tomasphan

98% uptime is not great. Our eng department is thinking about going half half with Codex but of course there’s a switching cost.

world2vec

I'm getting "Prompt is too long" a lot today

DiffTheEnder

I'm finding queries are taking about 3x as long as they used to regardless of whether I use Sonnet or Opus (Claude Code on Max)

dude250711

How is coding "solved" then? Unless they meant "all code that needs to be written has already been written" so their mission is to prevent any new code from being written via a kind of a bait and switch?

whicks

IME this isn't just a 'Claude Code' problem, I'm seeing extremely degraded / unresponsive performance using Opus 4.6 in Cursor.

arduanika

The eternal return of https://xkcd.com/303/

mring33621

For a lot of my work, I'm pretty happy with OpenCode + GLM-4.7-Flash-REAP-23B-A3B-Q4_K_M.gguf running in llama.cpp. Free and local.

nprateem

Antigravity has become near unusable too for the last week with Opus. Continual capacity alerts meaning tasks stop running. Not worth the money now, will be canceling unless fixed soon.

kristjansson

No one is going to like this answer, but there’s a simple solution: pay for API tokens and adjust your use of CC so that the actions you have it take are worth the cost of the tokens. It’s great to buy dollars for a penny, but the guy selling em is going to want to charge a dollar eventually…

totalmarkdown

i upgraded to the 20x plan, and hit the weekly limit within 24 hours. i was running some fairly large tasks, but was still surprised it hit the weekly session limit so quickly. now i can't use it for 6 more days :( i didn't even have time to ask it to help setup logs or something to track my usage before i hit the session limit.

alasano

If you prepare yourself a token with "claude setup-token" (presuming you're not already locked out and had one) you can run "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN=sk.. claude" to use your account.

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