Claude AI Gets Weirdly Slow After 9 PM (I Noticed It While Reviewing Code)

I ran into something interesting recently while using Claude AI to review some of my code. During the day the responses were fast . I could paste a file, ask for suggestions, iterate quickly, and the workflow felt smooth. But when I tried doing the same thing later in the evening — around 9 PM and after — the experience changed a lot. Responses suddenly took much longer . Sometimes it would sit there “thinking” for quite a while before returning the review. At first I assumed it was something on my side: maybe my internet maybe the browser tab maybe I pasted too much code But after trying a few times on different days, I noticed the same pattern. It’s Probably Peak Usage My guess is pretty simple. Evenings are when a lot of developers start working on: side projects open source debugging issues from the day experimenting with AI tools So tools like Claude , ChatGPT , and Gemini probably get a huge spike in requests around that time. And when millions of prompts hit the system at once,