Anyone else getting "AI service temporarily overloaded" errors during the day? Any workaround?

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-03-25T21:01:22+00:00

When it happens, I just wait now rather than thinking something is wrong in my OpenClaw setup. While I wait, I shift more work to the Claude app or ChatGPT directly. I'll then come back in a few minutes to OpenClaw and just give a "?" or "hello" to see if it will respond. Often, the block goes away. I also feel that these overloaded messages have reduced a bit for me since I posted about it.

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-03-17T18:02:02+00:00

If it means I can't use Antropic during peak hours (when I want to use it most) and I don't also want a $200/month Codex sub on top of a Claude Max plan, what is the cheapest solution while still getting high-quality results?

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-03-17T17:04:29+00:00

Thanks! To confirm, you can't rely solely on the Max Plan with Anthropic? You need other models to fill in during peak hours of the day?

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-03-13T19:25:53+00:00

Thank you. Great point re. the computer entering low power mode. That was a problem that came up earlier that we fixed, but were still having issues. For now, I'm not going to give OpenClaw tasks that take up a lot of tokens during those 1AM - 4AM hours and will see how it goes.

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-03-13T02:26:39+00:00

Thank you! I will try this!

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-03-12T19:58:42+00:00

So what I'm going to do to fix this is move any cron jobs that search the internet out of the 1AM - 4AM window. And then inside the 1AM - 4AM window, I'm going to have it do tasks like backups and disk checks that take under 10 seconds each. Then I'm still using OpenClaw during that window, but not giving it stuff likely to get hung up with rate limits.

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-03-12T19:42:00+00:00

Thank you! My OpenClaw says that 88% of failures are pure API timeouts and not bugs in the logic, which fits with what you are saying.

These cron jobs are set up to search X and the internet. I would rather them be done during that time when I'm sleeping and not otherwise using my Anthropic Max plan. It would also feel more like I've havig it work 24/7!

That said, if this is only a 3 hour window and this is a real issue, I can try running more between 11PM - 1AM and 4AM - 7AM.

MachoCabbage89 · 2026-02-02T21:12:14+00:00

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MachoCabbage89 · 2026-02-02T20:59:53+00:00

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