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Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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post #173

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Of course it is. Making shovels and digging holes are different skills and require different organizations.

But this is a magic shovel that digs holes and tunnels all by itself exactly as intended. It should be able to do this without any special skill involved in prompting it.

no it isn't

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#252

yes, that's just what I want; The SlopDaddy supreme to make a chat app that will be used by billion-dollar corporations for often sensitive and mission-critical communications. What could possibly go wrong?

Why do you care so much? Do you have life changing equity or are part of the founding team? Or are you just an employee expense line item?

Because this hypothetical heap could end up being used at a company that has my personally identifying information on file. If you don't care about the cavalier usage of AI chatbots and vibecoded software in these organizations then you aren't paying enough attention.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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This is just crazy. Lets ask the power company to build some trains for us. They transport electricity, they _must_ know about transporting people. They can power the lines themselves! If this was so easy, teams wouldn't suck, matrix would be everywhere, and discord would be replaced already by the furries (as much as stoat is trying).

If they sell a magic app building machine, its not crazy to ask them build an app with it, is it?

Can you imagine how well they'd sell their product if they could actually demonstrate it's capabilities by just, at a whim, duplicating a non-trivial software product.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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I don't want everybody with an idea making a repo. It's already hard enough to filter out the slop in github that I'm reluctant about using anything built in the past year.

I hear you, but it's not like the quality bar on Github was super high before AI

Underrated comment.

Even if AI with autonomous agentic development made something that worked at the average of code quality, I wonder if the code might be a little more sturdy, predictable, and the compromise is a little more verbose for the level that works for the AI to manage it.

Humans would then help oversee the input, insight, and extension and improvement above and below that.

AI could be a baseline.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Asking the company that is banning use of their subscription in other services, when other subscriptions like Codex and OpenCode don't, to make something that is interoperable with similar systems. Alright lol

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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post #191

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It's amazing how every reply failed to realize you're (and post was) talking about (a) enterprise Slack usage & (b) AI use by the company itself .

I operate with the assumption that the company can access my private DMs on enterprise slack if they want to. With that, users are still allowed to be concerned if the company is going to use that information for AI use cases. I’d prefer that all AI stay away from my private DMs.

There is no privacy in corporate computer systems in the US, legally, as far as I'm aware.

Company pays for the bills = company data

The issue here is that Slack's attempting to build a moat by restricting access by a company to that company's data.

Thereby allowing Salesforce to sell additional features on that same data that only it has access to at scale.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't want everybody with an idea making a repo. It's already hard enough to filter out the slop in github that I'm reluctant about using anything built in the past year.

I hear you, but it's not like the quality bar on Github was super high before AI

It might not have been. But it's not hard to see that whatever productivity coefficient multiplier llms brings, it's being dwarfed by how much easier it is to publish projects that only look good on the surface.

While it's a great tool in the hands of capable and well intentioned people, there's not a world out there where the average quality of software goes up.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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post #62

I keep telling people left and right that SAAS is in serious trouble. I’m not even talking about Anthropic spinning out their own Slack (which they could easily do), but any company out there putting 2-3 engineers on a Slack clone that they can use internally at very little cost and open source.

So basically spend 500K-1M per year for a worse slack?
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