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Incredible how we can claim productivity increases when its either Claude or Github shitting the bed every other day. It must even itself out to a net neutral g
by halfmatthalfcat 4mo ago
Incredible how we can claim productivity increases when its either Claude or Github shitting the bed every other day. It must even itself out to a net neutral gain in the long term.
- spiderfarmer 4mo agoIf that 0.07% downtime was holding me back I wouldn't publicly admit that.
- halfmatthalfcat 4mo agoGotta keep my 100x developer cred, that 0.07% is everything.
- maccard 4mo agoWhen that downtime happens is way more important than the amount of it. Imagine if your payroll system was down for 8 hours a month, but it just so happened to be the day payroll do their calculations?
- armdave 4mo agoTotally. The uptime metrics are deceiving imo. A more useful measure for a productivity tool like Claude Code is uptime during work hours for a given time zone. I strongly suspect at least for the three US time zones, we would be looking at a single nine of uptime for that measure.
- spiderfarmer 4mo agoImagine your boss complaining about your productivity in the same way you blame your tools.
- maccard 4mo agoImagine you told your boss you slept 8 hours a day like everyone else, so your productivity is the same. Except you sleep during working hours and everyone else is awake!
- spiderfarmer 4mo agoYeah, because sleep is the only unproductive thing you can do during working hours.
- secretslol 4mo ago'Claude for Government' is the only one with 0.07% downtime, claude.ai has 0.89% downtime and claude code 0.74% - imo, that's a lot of downtime!
- efficax 4mo agoover a year, 0.89% is around 3 whole days of downtime
- secretslol 4mo agoWorks out at even more days when you consider working hours. And these downtime events never happen when I'm sleeping, always smack in the middle of the afternoon when I'm working.
- brookst 4mo agoClaude is 0.89% downtime. Getting close to one nine. There aren't many tools that remain useful at that rate.
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- mguerville 4mo agoBusiness/Office productivity tools can be productive at that rate. Core systems like ERP or arguably CRM can't, but MS Teams is probably already that low, Figma, Canva and several others could absolutely afford to be one nine before it affects their churn materially. I suspect OpenAI and Anthropic make most of their profit on business use cases rather than dev use cases (likely higher revenue but less profit) so this may be what sets the standard of uptime.
- selectodude 4mo agoHeh, I’m 5x more productive 99 percent of the time. That is still a very, very useful tool.
- aesthesia 4mo agoThat's two nines. One nine would be 10% downtime.
- brookst 4mo agoSo 95% uptime / 5% downtime is two nines?
- dpedu 4mo agoI don't understand this comment. At worst, we're just back to the baseline - working without AI help.
- cromka 4mo agoAt some point it won't be true. Same with handwriting, nowadays I feel like a 7 y/o when I need to write something on a piece of paper...
- halfmatthalfcat 4mo agoYes, that's what the comment means. We are back to the baseline. The availability of our tools isn't adding anything in the long term because the productivity increase we get from the tooling is negated by the time we're back to doing it the old fashioned way due to downtime, so there is no claimed productivity increase espoused by the pontificators of the tooling.
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- dpedu 4mo agoThis is an argument for returning to living in caves and hunting mammoths for fear that our modern civilization becomes unavailable for a day or two.
- halfmatthalfcat 4mo agoI'm down
- yubblegum 4mo agoDating was so much simpler back then, too ..
- deaton 4mo agoWith atrophy to our not-AI ability to do things