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 educational content on YouTube: Fern's 3.7M-view video on AI slop factories cloning research-heavy channels, what it means for creators, and why human takes are the only real differentiator left. Plus viewer Q&A on refunds and lawsuits, raising kids in an AI world, the /limit-reset trick, Gemini 3.8 at 75 cents, and the least-bad addiction. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Y3uO9s0iftw Check out Higgsfield, one of our sponsors: https://bit.ly/4gEW43Z Inquiries: [email protected]