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Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by regexorcist »

vld_chk wrote: post #13

Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, and a set of agents. Another instantly rolling out new products in the same niche. Heck, they even start to release their models in the same day. We just in middle May and it is already which product release from each of them? In books of t…

It's mostly marketing and hype. This "product" is a collection of vibecoded skills.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by esperent »

chasebank wrote: post #8

FYI, the definition of small business in the US is fewer than 500 employees.

Damn, that's an order of magnitude higher than the rest of the world.

Never in my life would I have thought a business with more than 100 employees could be considered small. In the EU the cutoff is 50.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by chairmansteve »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #17
vld_chk wrote: post #13

Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, and a set of agents. Another instantly rolling out new products in the same niche. Heck, they even start to release their models in the same day. We just in middle May and it is already which product release from each of them? In books of t…

It's an inconsequential competition because both are giving away products that are somewhere between non-functional and barely-functional while torching a mountain of borrowed money. Both will go bankrupt if not bailed out by the government.

Yeah. There were books written about Enron and Worldcom...

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by hommelix »

By coincidence, I've looked yesterday a small documentary [1] about the people tagging all those invoices to train theses models. For 120 €/month they are reading about 1000 to 4000 invoices per day and check and tag them for AI training.

[1] https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/126831-000-A/arte-reportage/

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by didibus »

simianwords wrote: post #19
neuronexmachina wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's essentially this plugin? https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/ma...

Looks useful, so they are new plugins. But what are plugins vs skills vs connectors?

A plugin is just a bundle of MCPs, skills and templated prompts.

A skill cannot provide MCPs and can't provide custom template prompts, each skill is it's own slash command.

A plugin you can define N number of custom slash commands, and you can define MCPs as well as skills. So it bundles like all the things together.

By installing a plugin, you are basically installing a bunch of MCPs, skills and custom slash command prompts.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by teekert »

8note wrote: post #16
SilverElfin wrote: post #7

Isn’t Cowork a tough thing to trust? What if it goes wrong, especially in the hands of users that aren’t programmers? Anthropic is releasing these vibe codes products continuously and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before something goes wrong. Shouldn’t they focus on safety and security first before releasing these?

theres a pretty clear underlying system somebody needs to make "git for business"

ZFS?

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by falcor84 »

applfanboysbgon wrote: post #17
vld_chk wrote: post #13

Anthropic vs OAI fierce competition, maybe, the most intense we have seen in capitalism history. They can’t let breathe each other. One declare free Codex for businesses to adopt, and a set of agents. Another instantly rolling out new products in the same niche. Heck, they even start to release their models in the same day. We just in middle May and it is already which product release from each of them? In books of t…

It's an inconsequential competition because both are giving away products that are somewhere between non-functional and barely-functional while torching a mountain of borrowed money. Both will go bankrupt if not bailed out by the government.

I don't know what frustrations you have, but the impact of Claude (and particularly Claude Code) on my productivity over the last year has been astronomical. If there wasn't this fierce competition, and I had to pay 10 times as much, I still gladly would.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by yowlingcat »

8note wrote: post #16
SilverElfin wrote: post #7

Isn’t Cowork a tough thing to trust? What if it goes wrong, especially in the hands of users that aren’t programmers? Anthropic is releasing these vibe codes products continuously and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before something goes wrong. Shouldn’t they focus on safety and security first before releasing these?

theres a pretty clear underlying system somebody needs to make "git for business"

I've been really enjoying claude design but my biggest critique of it (and frankly how vanilla claude handles files in general) is that it has no native conception of git-like version control. In code land you can work around this with harnesses so there's only so much harm claude code/opencode can do, but to your point in small biz land when it's putzing around with a system of record without rewindability, things could get really messy really fast.

A couple more thoughts here - the hard part is not just the data side of it, it's replaying/unplaying actions. Many actions are non-reversible. Code is clean in the same way that google docs is clean. But for many business processes, some actions just can't be unwound once started. If claude initiates a wire that it shouldn't, no amount of git technology will undo that wire.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by nurettin »

I had a trust issue up to opus 4.6

Now I have claude hooked up to a dozen projects I used to maintain manually. It is such a pleasure watch it read the complaint and go to town on small problems without dropping any databases or removing home dirs.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by yfw »

nurettin wrote: post #29

I had a trust issue up to opus 4.6 Now I have claude hooked up to a dozen projects I used to maintain manually. It is such a pleasure watch it read the complaint and go to town on small problems without dropping any databases or removing home dirs.

Havent removed it yet. What recourse do you have if it does? Can you hold anthropic accountable?
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