As a witty commenter said in another post, this entire industry is a beta product.
I see better uptime in beta products and even my 7$/yr vps. This is a 500 Billion dollar company or more, let that sink in :-D
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#72I 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.
Claude to plan, codex to implement. Claude's giant context is great for reading large amounts of code but it is currently incapable of following instructions/guidelines.
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#73what is up with claude lol.
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#74It'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 output.
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#75I 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…
That is something hospitals do when the computer systems go down haha
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#76I 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
I am not sure how many people learned it the first time. To be fair, it's really hard to build a business without major dependencies. The key is to assume they will fail and have alternatives available.
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#77I have to say, I do respect Anthropic's honesty for their status page. Most service provider seem allergic to declaring an outage... It is a weird thing to respect come to think of it... Having an accurate status page should be the baseline, but that's the world we live in.
Most service provider provides outage status page.
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#78I have to say, I do respect Anthropic's honesty for their status page. Most service provider seem allergic to declaring an outage... It is a weird thing to respect come to think of it... Having an accurate status page should be the baseline, but that's the world we live in.
To be fair, the status page tends to lag by thirty minutes to an hour.
And I’ve experienced 500 error codes in Claude code that lasted more than thirty minutes but less than an hour that never showed up on the status page as an outage
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is true in many industries. Try to build a house without tools.
That's why AI isn't really a tool here. You can buy a new drill. If you replace all your house builders with a house factory then you're utterly reliant on the company that makes the factory.
AI coding assistants haven’t been available for very long. If someone forgot how to write code manually already then they have bigger problems.
I don’t think the house factory analogy makes sense for multiple reasons. I subscribe to multiple LLM providers and switch between them all day. I could sign up for a dozen more to provide GLM 5.1 if I wanted to as well. I can even run lesser models locally on my machine.
This is nothing like a single factory because I can switch to a new provider in minutes with a credit card.
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#80I 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.