I think the scenario was more of, if really everyone depends on claude, then better nothing critical(medical software, aviation, traffic controll ..) breaks while claude is offline.
At least some of the projects in these industries now specify strict no-AI-use policies in contracts. I participate in a few of these, and it’s becoming a bit of a pain, because all dev tool vendors insist on adding AI features, and if there’s no way to turn them off completely we have to migrate away.
However, the temptation of productivity gains are strong, and few of the customers look into relaxing these rules.
The good thing is we've learned this already from cloud. When one AWS region is degraded we all failover to other regions, and then other cloud providers, right? ...right?
Thinking, yes, but also secrets, access and effective control of important services in every country and company worldwide, centralized in the US (or anywhere else) where the NSA can take the driver's seat at any time. "AI" is the ultimate sleeper agent.
I have been saying things to this effect for a few years now, and have literally been laughed at. I feel like that guy that suggested that doctors should wash their hands before operating on patients -- they laughed at him too, before they put him in an asylum. What's going to happen, is that everyone who realizes that these policies are a mistake, is going to quietly retcon their own role in that mistake, while scapegoating everyone that they don't like.
Also, would bet money that the derived data from the meeting-summarizers is being sold to hedge-funds, to give them a bit of an edge.
I'm not blindly spending money? I'm doing research for specific items. I then research the brands, the materials, the makers, etc. Yes, this is more than most will do, but I'm definitely not giving it my payment info or trusting its recommendations out of hand.
That said, for specific queries—e.g. "I need a linen sportcoat that is beige/natural. What are some brands? My price range is $XXX"—it is very good.
I was tired of getting flat tires on my rider mower, but I was a little afraid of replacing it with the wrong thing. Fed Claude the parts manual and ended up with some good flat-free recommendations.
Got something that fits and is working: something that, even if I'd done some more homework on my own, I might not have gone with because I would have been hung up on finding a perfect, 1:1 replacement.
And I just came back from Seoul where Gemini suggested local clothing labels I would have never found if I hadn't told Gemini what brands I liked already and to find similar ones. And it was bang-on style-wise (some of the shops were really hidden and out of the way).
You sent Anthropic a picture of yourself and had it generate images of you wearing various articles of clothing and then bought them based on the images that it showed you?
> you buy the clothing with the most 000's at the end of the price because it's most likely the best
This is very rarely the case. For tailored or custom clothing, sure, but that doesn’t end up being the most expensive. Silly designer brands with lower quality do.
Not who you’re replying for but I can give some thoughts.
For anything math, it’s much more reliable to give agents tools. So if you want to verify that your real estate offer is in the 90–95th percentile of offerings in the past three months, don’t give Claude that data and ask it to calculate. Offload to a tool that can query Postgres.
Similar with things needing data from an external source of truth. For example, what payers (insurance companies) reimburse for a specific CPT code (medical procedure) can change at any time and may be different between today and when the service was provided two months ago. Have a tool that farms out the calculation, which itself uses a database or whatever to pull the rate data.
The LLM can orchestrate and figure out what needs to be done, like a human would, but anything else is either scary (math) or expensive (it using context to constantly pull documentation.)
HIPAA doesn't require any certification either. Some organizations voluntarily choose to earn certification from private companies that offer certifications for compliance with HIPAA privacy or administrative simplification rules but this is completely optional.
For doing some reporting stuff internally, there isn’t a certification. But there are definitely humans who have to certify financial statements and communications for financial offerings.
Like Slack or GitHub or AWS or whatever. It’s almost always a net positive to wait vs do it yourself.
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