Claude Went Down & Half The Economy Stopped
Claude went down this morning and took half the economy with it: agents paused mid-task, terminals full of API errors, and a timeline of small businesses all saying the same thing. Nick and Jack dig into what 99.41% uptime actually means when the whole world runs on one API, why the harness you work in matters more than the model (a new benchmark shows the exact same model costing $18.34 per task in Claude Code versus $3.28 in a third-party harness at the same pass rate, a 17.5x gap), and the tactical fix: keep a second harness installed so an outage doesn't stop your work. Then the death of…
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