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.

This is roughly like saying -

"It's weird how when internal cloud goes down, no one can function until it's back."

Any dependency is like this, it's not the first, it won't be the last.

Try going a day or two without being in any way connected to the internet.

This is true in many industries. Try to build a house without tools.

Is that really the case though?

I am pretty sure most people deep in AI tool use various LLM providers anyway.

Even stranger when they arguably don't function reliably even when it's "normal".

Sounds incredible to me if that's actually the case somewhere.

>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.

Speak for yourself, myself and plenty of others have not made themselves reliant on third party subscriptions in order to do our jobs.