What Happens When Your AI Goes Down?

On Friday afternoon, Claude started dropping in and out. The status page said operational. It wasn't. Our co-founder Alex Hagan hit record and captured the whole thing in real time, continuing to work in Virtually Myself® without interruption while Claude was unresponsive.

Virtually Myself® doesn't rely on any single AI model. If one provider goes down, the system automatically cascades to the next available model, keeping your context, chat history, and files intact. No switching platforms. No lost work. No waiting.

In this short video, Alex walks through exactly what happened, how the failover works, and why model independence matters, whether it's a few minutes of downtime or something more permanent.

We wrote more about why this matters beyond a Friday afternoon outage. Two recent developments - Anthropic being flagged as a US Department of Defense supply chain risk and OpenAI introducing advertising - are changing the relationship between professionals and the AI tools they depend on. We unpacked what that means and why the most important AI decision you make this year probably isn't which tool you choose.

Read the full article → Anthropic Is Now a US Defence Supply Chain Risk. OpenAI Is Injecting Ads. Here's What That Means for Your AI Stack. (/blog/why-ai-model-independence-matters)