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Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by mikepurvis »

boh wrote: post #8

I think all the retail LLM's are working to broaden the available context, but in most practical use-cases it's having the ability to minimize and filter the context that would produce the most value. Even a single PDF with too many similar datapoints leads to confusion in output. They need to switch gears from the high growth, "every thing is possible and available" narrative, to one that narrows the scope. The "hal…

That's a tough pill to swallow when your company valuation is a $62B based on the premise that you're building a bot capable of transcendent thought, ready to disrupt every vertical in existence.

Tackling individual use-cases is supposed to be something for third party "ecosystem" companies to go after, not the mothership itself.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by Etheryte »

boh wrote: post #8

I think all the retail LLM's are working to broaden the available context, but in most practical use-cases it's having the ability to minimize and filter the context that would produce the most value. Even a single PDF with too many similar datapoints leads to confusion in output. They need to switch gears from the high growth, "every thing is possible and available" narrative, to one that narrows the scope. The "hal…

This has been my experience as well. The moment you turn internet access on, Kagi Assistant starts outputting garbage. Turn it off and you're all good.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by throwup238 »

The leap frogging at this point is getting insane (in a good way, I guess?). The amount of time each state of the art feature gets before it's supplanted is a few weeks at this point.

LLMs were always a fun novelty for me until OpenAI DeepResearch which started to actually come up with useful results on more complex programming questions (where I needed to write all the code by hand but had to pull together lots of different libraries and APIs), but it was limited to 10/month for the cheaper plan. Then Google Deep Research upgraded to 2.5 Pro and with paid usage limits of 20/day, which allowed me to just throw everything at it to the point where I'm still working through reports that are a week or more old. Oh and it searched up to 400 sources at a time, significantly more than OpenAI which made it quite useful in historical research like identifying first edition copies of books.

Now Claude is releasing the same research feature with integrations (excited to check out the Cloudflare MCP auth solution and hoping Val.town gets something similar), and a run time of up to 45 minutes. The pace of change was overwhelming half a year ago, now it's just getting ridiculous.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by WillAdams »

xnx wrote: post #6

Integrations are nice, but the superpower is having an AI smart enough to operate a computer/keyboard/mouse so it can do anything without the cooperation/consent of the service being used. Lots of people are making moves in this space (including Anthropic), but nothing has broken through to the mainstream.

Or even access multiple files?

Why can't one set up a prompt, test it against a file, then once it is working, apply it to each file in a folder in a batch process which then provides the output as a single collective file?

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by throwaway314155 »

rubenfiszel wrote: post #13

I feel dumb but how do you actually add Zapier or Confluence or custom MCP on the web version of claude? I only see it for Drive/Gmail/Github. Is it zoned/slow release?

edit: im fairly certain these additions only work on Claude Desktop?

That or they're pulling an OpenAI and launching a feature that isn't actually fully live.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by WhitneyLand »

The integrations feel so rag-ish. It talks, tells you it’s going to use a tool, searches, talks about what it found…

Hope one day it will be practical to do nightly finetunes of a model per company with all core corporate data stores.

This could create a seamless native model experience that knows about (almost) everything you’re doing.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by rubenfiszel »

throwaway314155 wrote: post #18
rubenfiszel wrote: post #13

I feel dumb but how do you actually add Zapier or Confluence or custom MCP on the web version of claude? I only see it for Drive/Gmail/Github. Is it zoned/slow release?

edit: im fairly certain these additions only work on Claude Desktop? That or they're pulling an OpenAI and launching a feature that isn't actually fully live.

But the videos show claude web
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