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The most valuable part of AI may not be the model

Throughout 2026, Claude users repeatedly reported the same practical failure: workflows that had worked reliably stopped working, long sessions lost their thread, and instruction-following became less dependable. Users would suddenly report that a coding workflow had become unreliable, that a long-running process […]

The most valuable part of AI may not be the model

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Throughout 2026, Claude users repeatedly reported the same practical failure: workflows that had worked reliably stopped working, long sessions lost their thread, and instruction-following became less...

Users would suddenly report that a coding workflow had become unreliable, that a long-running process […]

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Throughout 2026, Claude users repeatedly reported the same practical failure: workflows that had worked reliably stopped working, long sessions lost their thread, and instruction-following became less dependable. Users would suddenly report that a coding workflow had become unreliable, that a long-running process […] The complaints did not arrive as a smooth decline.

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