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Re:Claude Is Down by phil-martin on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:00AM (#50481733)
Of course it matters. If you used Claude just to accelerate production, let's say it makes you twice as productive. That means if you budget 30 minutes to do something, if Claude stops working, it means it'll take you 60. Or you just use the 30 and its half as good, not as polished, any number of things. Particularly if you know claude is really good at repetitive tasks, such as making sure all the font are the same size so you leave that until the end so you can focus on content.

The example are contrived, but still very real.

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Re:Claude Is Down by xattt on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:02AM (#50482299)
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Re:Claude Is Down by Raed667 on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:10AM (#50482377)
why stop there? i hear Boris Cherny has thousands of instances running in parallel, he can do it in milliseconds
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Re:Claude Is Down by wongarsu on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:15AM (#50482432)
People with more budget than me give the task of polishing up the powerpoint to an assistant. They don't hire 20 assistants to have the work done 20 times as fast, but that does not negate that having one assistant do it does free up some of their time

Responsible use of Claude behaves much the same, just within my budget

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Re:Claude Is Down by dmd on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:23AM (#50482507)
Huang needed to have a baby in 3 months, so,
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