They really gotta get this Mythos guy to work on their reliability. I heard he was a Genius.
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#102It's strange to think how dependent people have become on these tools to the point where they can't function until they're back to normal.
I had some mundane refactoring work that I would have happily led Claude handle this morning. I shrugged and did it myself and it was fine. If a team is so dependent on Claude that they’re paralyzed when it goes down, I’d worry that they’re in over their heads. Opus 4.6 is amazing but still has limits. You need to know what you’re looking at and how to send it in the right direction, as well as when to reject its out…
I sadly think that's where we are headed.
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#103I wonder how long it will take the software industry to re-learn the 2010s lesson, that basing your entire business on (and in this case, firing half of your employees and replacing them with) another company’s API is a bad business decision
Is it important to be that self reliant? I wasn't in the workforce then, so I assume if you have an outsourced system with 99% reliability it would be an acceptable risk. Not sure if any AI system will reach that level, but for potential gains it could be worth it.
Former cofounder had a $60 million ARR payment platform on a big company. They saw the success and kicked them off the api and built the same product. Now it’s billions on there public filing income statement.
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#104I got 2 500s and quickly popped over to codex since I was just doing documentation and planning work and didn't neeeeeeed claude. He's already back for me. :) To another's point, yeah, it's sad that Claude taking a brief hiatus just halts workflow. I imagine my whole team just started packing for a beach trip. Then again, I suppose if the CPA office computers go down, everyone doesn't dust off giant ledgers and quill…
I want to like Claude but I keep having to pop over to codex and I feel at some point I'll stop starting with Claude and just use Codex from the start.
GPT 5.4 is working pretty well for me, both in Copilot and Codex vscode extensions
If you create a plan it follows it closely
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#105It’s fine. I used up my weekly quota four days ago anyway.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
What makes you say it is a bad business decision? It seems to be a fine decision to make for things like AWS, since when it goes down, a ton of websites go down and no one blames the site. There is no way to know whether it is a good or bad business decision just because they can go down when a third party goes down. For example, if you save $50 million a year by firing half your employees and replacing them with AI,…
On the other hand a competitor site that is up (or bricks and mortar competitors) might get a lot of business when AWS goes down. If you depend on AWS for operations it might be a lot more expensive than that. Mostly I think its that management does not blame the person who picks AWS. Its another iteration of "no one got fired for buying IBM/Microsoft". It is also an issue at other levels: if all a county's businesse…
That would require AWS to actually be down a lot, and it’s not. Betting your business on AWS being flakier than whatever alternative provider you use is probably not a good idea.
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#107I wonder how long it will take the software industry to re-learn the 2010s lesson, that basing your entire business on (and in this case, firing half of your employees and replacing them with) another company’s API is a bad business decision
Frontier models being in the hands of a handful companies does not help either. Let's hope that the open weight movement changes that soon.
If it goes as well as the 'open' / federated social network alternatives of the 2010s, I wouldn't count on it.
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#108It's strange to think how dependent people have become on these tools to the point where they can't function until they're back to normal.
>It's strange to think how dependent people have become on these tools to the point where they can't function until they're back to normal.
I'm doing the work of an entire team now. I can still do the work of one person by hand, but that's not acceptable anymore.
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#109I wonder how long it will take the software industry to re-learn the 2010s lesson, that basing your entire business on (and in this case, firing half of your employees and replacing them with) another company’s API is a bad business decision
Frontier models being in the hands of a handful companies does not help either. Let's hope that the open weight movement changes that soon.
Gemma 4 has made a lot of progress in this area. The model is phenomenal. It's size is workable. This is the worst it will ever be.
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#110It's strange to think how dependent people have become on these tools to the point where they can't function until they're back to normal.
Is that really the case though?
I am pretty sure most people deep in AI tool use various LLM providers anyway.