EX. Sure, you could go back to the old ways of using a drafting table for your engineering work if CAD went down but it would be exponentially slower…
Personally with my workflow I spend 30-60 minutes per Claude feature spec doc when I’m pair planning. If Claude goes down I would just prepare spec docs on my own until it came back online and then rapidly review them before calling the coding workflow.
Precisely. Every online-only solution is a huge risk i personally do not want to take, i've always done my best to use offline-only tools.
That may restrict me from the latest and greatest, but i prefer not to be left at mercy of any corpo
But this is the reason "serious shops" do not use always online software and tools in critical parts of the SDLC. There is a difference between influencers/people on socials promoting things vs. reality where the expectation is that things don't just stop working because there is an internet outage or some 3rd party disruption
Do farmers still plough fields with a Horse just in case their tractor runs out of diesel? Of course not, as technology moves on we all have to accept the inherent risks in exchange for the huge benefits, otherwise the work you do will be too slow and your job taken by someone willing to leverage the tools available today.
Uh, people do say this thing. It is a basic factor and question asked during technology procurement. Uptime and fail states matter.
AI just seems exempt from all the questions people usually ask about relying on other people's software.
For someone to do this, they would have to think for themselves, which I've also not seen much of in the vibe-coding space.
I have seen many many times in microcontroller forums posts from first timers in the liking of "hello sirs i have problem please show how to do this", followed by their own reply a few hours later asking again because they were holding up, where "this" was usually something really trivial, you just needed to read the docs and the rightful answer was "did you really not try anything in 6 hours?"
If hand coding pays better there will be plenty who can still do that.
More importantly I think, if devs become dependent enough on LLMs that they just put it aside when the model isn't available, they wouldn't be able to onboard quickly or at all.
It takes experience and a pretty deep understanding of programming in your language of choice to pick up a new code base and quickly understand how it works, the architecture(s) and pattern(s) being used, etc. Those skills would likely have been lost long before a dev simply can't work without the LLM.
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The point is vendor lock-in. The vibe coding community has reinvented vendor lock-in and is bound to repeat every mistake associated with it.
You don't need to put in any effort, just get Claude (Codex CLI if Claude is down) to generate the multi-harness config for you.
You sound like you might be a beginner so let me help you out with some advice -- You can get your multi-harness configurations completely identical by simply telling Claude to research the Codex spec and eliminate all feature drift between your configs. Hope this helps.
It's literally one prompt away. If you're worried about errors, just threaten to sue Anthropic in the prompt and the quality of the answer instantly improves by 75%.
pre AI if my IDE was down for whatever reason I wouldn't switch IDE's, I would do something else.
Naturally you can also have a LLM one-shot a 14000 line PHP monstrosity - it's up to you still, LLM or not.
The main problem is that it'll probably be a waste of time to code anything yourself if Claude is back online in 8 hrs. It's like walking to the next bus stop when you missed your bus - it won't make you get home any sooner.
8 hrs will probably be better spent reading specs or checking things with stakeholders so the next features you let Claude implement are the ones the business actually wants.
2. How often do you think that happens, compared to Claude?
> What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours?
So: - A codebase made with Claude - Using this [Claude] setup - Claude is down
How can you come up with such non sense.