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Anthropic urgently need a fail whale equivalent

This made me happy:

Whereas this makes me sad:

On a more serious note if (a) LLM use continues to embed at this rate (b) the worst predictions of cognitive outsourcing come true (c) firms restructure their roles around the affordances of LLMs then events like this are like little economic bombs going off.

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March 2, 2026
claude, fail whale, Generative AI for Academics, twitter
LLMs and social life
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