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I have seen this happening with contracts. Using AI to help evaluate contracts is fine, but I'm getting 5-10 page Claude docs with dozens of asks that they haven't read and many of which don't make sense. I find it pretty counterproductive, because it makes negotiation almost impossible -- you can't tell what the other side wants, because they haven't even read the output.
Or, they never actually sat down to THINK about it, which is even worse.
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Accountants can be expensive, especially if your books are messy, or have poor accounting practices from the start. Systems like quickbooks, hubspot, payment processors all have tiers where yes on paper they make it easy to properly setup good accounting practices, but you’ll spend an additional 500/month+ to get those features. Hiring an accountant to clean up the books and do quarterly book keeping is equally as ex…
If you think a good accountant is expensive try seeing what a bad one will cost you.
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I have seen this happening with contracts. Using AI to help evaluate contracts is fine, but I'm getting 5-10 page Claude docs with dozens of asks that they haven't read and many of which don't make sense. I find it pretty counterproductive, because it makes negotiation almost impossible -- you can't tell what the other side wants, because they haven't even read the output.
Or, they never actually sat down to THINK about it, which is even worse.
It matches the pattern of LLMs being very good at simulating the form of work output, which is an issue with code but it seems quite exacerbated with anything non-verifiable, like written communication.
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> a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. It'll just be power users. We're moving toward a world of significantly fewer analysts and more into "Super SMEs" that can actually learn tools like Claude and manage enormous complexity with them. Just giving average users these tools will produce garbage. This example from Claude is so contrived and any business analyst can see how a process tha…
Sadly I feel the Excel analogy holds still, where maybe 80% of its users can't write a SUMIF() formula or make a pivot table to save their lives, yet they will happily use Excel every day as digital grid paper. Meanwhile Microsoft made a lot of money selling Excel licenses.
I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…
> that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user That's what they aim Claude Cowork at. Every executive/leader I've shown Claude Cowork to has gone from 'what is AI' to 'vibecoding whole apps' in weeks. Then when Claude is down for an hour, they get visibly angry and don't remember how to do anything pre-Claude :) I understand the impulse to provide a UI to manage codebases, etc. But my observation is…
As someone working in a small business/startup, who finally got the team Claude Team Premium, I don't really get what might I benefit extra from by enabling this. I can find whatever workflows and tell it to integrate them anyway, why would I bother with this?
IDK if it's just me, but the rate at which Anthropic and similar are launching (and changing!) features and offerings doesn't inspire confidence. I expect stability from software and platforms I buy into and integrate into my systems. Feels like they're just using LLMs to produce enormous levels of output, without understanding that quantity ≠ quality.
The thing is that's the whole vibe code & agentic pitch right now. Do stuff quick quick and throw it over the wall, patch stuff, rinse and repeat. It's not seeking quality and stability.
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3k is like 1/50th of the penalty you're going to get if you make a mistake on your taxes, trust me I know, and Anthropic isn't going to be covering those penalties. IRS is going to make a ton of money off you naive people. Get a better CPA who's not committing malpractice like your current one.
Not sure why this is getting down voted. You will get audited 3 years after the offense and they will charge you interest higher than the worst credit card for those three yrs (during which you had no clue you offended). Be fool and replace your CPA with your favorite text autocomplete machine learning model and let me know how that works out for you.
I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…
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But at least you could basically follow their logic. I think what a lot of us are concerned about is that the vibe-coded stuff bloats fast. It's so verbose and all over the place, that picking that thing apart will be a huge job, and relying on an AI to pick apart work that an AI already failed to maintain seem like wishful thinking. It's literally "The AI is failing! Don't worry I'll just use AI to fix the AI!".
Yes, as long as context size increase and llm improve at least there's a way out through using AI but once the progress stops...
And even if they somehow weren’t, we’d just do what we used to do with documents to turn them into "chewable bites": chunking, extracting, summarising,…