Claude now creates a unique kind of friction: paternalism. Unilaterally redacts "sensitive" data without explanation. Every time, when queried, it offers no defense of such behaviors, says "that's not my call to make" and moves on. Harness config changes have no notable effect.

NVIDIA $NVDA CEO Jensen Huang just said every company will eventually have two factories, one physical and one digital, with digital twins becoming so realistic they will closely replicate the real world. Huang believes much of Germany’s industrial workforce will operate inside digital twins, designing AI-powered cars and simulating robotic factories before robots manufacture the vehicles in the physical world.

A lot of menswear today is boring because a lot of companies run by people with no technical skills. 175 years ago, menswear was made by bespoke tailors. The rise of industrial manufacturing and ready-to-wear split that role into designer, pattern maker, and sewer. Today, we have a lot of micro brands are run by people who are not tailors, designers, pattern makers, or sewers. They simply send a pair of chinos or an Oxford shirt to a factory and ask for modest changes (e.g., "make this fuller/ slimmer"). Thus, endless copies of essentially the same thing, differing only in branding and marketing.