Claude outages lay bare software developers' growing reliance on AI: 'I guess I'll write code like a caveman'

Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic.

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• Anthropic's Claude AI models suffered several outages this week.
• Some software developers said the disruptions laid bare how reliant they had become on AI tools.
• A Meta software engineer said these tools act like "a single button" to get tasks done.

When Anthropic's Claude AI tools stopped working this week, some software developers faced the unthinkable: coding manually.

On Monday...