Claude used to get years-old pothole fixed in two days
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A Dutch office's years of complaints went nowhere until someone fed Claude 6 photos of the pothole; it rebuilt the hole in 3D and simulated a 30 km/h hit. The video went to city hall and the pothole was fixed in 2 days.
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