Don't forget that there are a ton of tools out there that will automatically fall back in case of outage

E.g. say you chose Sol as your default in Cursor, but Opus is your 2nd choice, it's going to give up on Sol after a few tries and switch to Opus

Or you have copilot code reviews set up, and it falls back

Etc

Yep. Too many of us are still thinking that humans are the actors behind a lot of internet behaviors when automated systems/bots/scripts have been causing issues on conventional internet systems for years.

With AI it's even easier to trigger problems like you say. Capacity is so constrained by compute that outages are common. Because outages are common people/AI develop failover systems in their harness. When a big system has issues, suddenly everyone has issues.

It's almost an expected emergent behavior.

Or that Gemini is built to handle massive load spikes, and/or has a ton of excess capacity

Nope. I am getting Gemini errors now...

They probably broke something on purpose so that they are not left out.

Now I'm just imagining a shared datacenter with Anthropic/Google/OpenAI/SpaceXAI all in the same room and everyone but Google is yelling about things being down, Google looks over at their racks of servers and discretely uses their foot to unplug their section and say "Awww darn! We're down too!".

I'm not sure if this is a good look, or a bad one, for Anthropic.

...and how many people to label all of the examples?

...and do not forget Support, Maintenance and that you will need an forever Cloud-connection...

> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models that are more powerful than those built by the US, and use them to achieve permanent military superiority or perpetrate incredibly deep repression of their own people.

That is not an argument against open weight models. That's just a generic protectionist argument against any Other lab.

They hook into industrial water supplies (usually not potable, unless the utility has no other option)

I would say that is the exception rather than the rule (potable is normal).

You can drink it, but the utilities don't rate it for that / guarantee (complete) treatment, IIRC.

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> Crazy. Those same enterprises will get sticker shock and leave.

They are already. Both for sticker shock, and also because of developer sentiment beginning to shift towards Codex. …and then in a month or two the winds will shift again, I'm sure.

It's interesting to see how Claude Code got commoditized so quickly.

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> and they have the vastly better brand

Strong disagree there. Anthropic has pretty successfully branded themselves as the more ethical & 'human' of the two companies. (whether that's the actual reality is irrelevant)

Especially considering this is very very similar to Figma Make

Same here. And just recently made the switch back to VS Code with CC

Also means you don't have to deal with Cursor's busted VS Code plugins due to licensing or forking drift (e.g. Python intellisence, etc)