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.