---
id: "quote-availability"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["00:22:31", "00:22:35"]
tags: ["infrastructure", "reliability"]
related: ["concept-availability-as-quality", "claim-anthropic-uptime-lag"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
sources: ["s26-gpt55-claude-gemini"]
sourceVaultSlug: "s26-gpt55-claude-gemini"
originDay: 26
---
# Availability is Quality

## Quote
> *"The best model in the world is not useful if you can't use it when you need it."*

— [[entity-nate-b-jones|Nate B. Jones]]

## Significance
The canonical phrasing of [[concept-availability-as-quality]]. Operationalizes uptime, rate-limits, and routing latency as **first-class quality dimensions** rather than infrastructure footnotes. Underwrites the practical default-to-OpenAI recommendation given [[claim-anthropic-uptime-lag|Anthropic's uptime issues]].