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Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#111

> Slack's data access policy is basically "No." For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's odd that it has no details whatsoever on what the issues actually are.

they dont let you extract messages via the API. Keeping Slack message data in their walled garden

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#112

What a strange thing to post on a corporate CEO blog - proof that AI is making it too easy create things without asking why. How does it serve Fivetran to post open letter about why Slack sucks? This only happens if it's easy to write a couple bullet points and have Claude fill in the rest... If an LLM wasn't used they would have realized it wasn't worth a post during the process of writing it.

Not to mention the CEO in question maintains some of the worst customer relations in the data vertical.

Fivetran is infamously bad to its users

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#114
post #11

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).

Wasn't Slack a gaming company that accidentally became a chat company?

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#115
post #11

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).

The model companies are the new OS, you bet they are thinking about projects like this

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#116
post #114
post #11

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).

Wasn't Slack a gaming company that accidentally became a chat company?

just like Flickr was a game that accidentally became a photo sharing website.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewar...

Stewart Butterfield is absolutely terrible at making games, but incredibly good at building successful companies.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#117
post #47
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Slack won't open up their data moat to AI, which is shameful. Ah yes. It's shameful that Slack won't open data moat to AI. You know, those millions of chats (including private data) by people who didn't give consent to this

> You know, those millions of chats (including private data) by people who didn't give consent to this I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business information. There are a lot of things people don't consent to. Being born. Breathing in the air molecules that come from other people's bodies. Looking at ugly things. Hearing annoying sounds. I…

> I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business information.

That’s not a valid argument. The company itself would still need to consent.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#118
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How google hasn't been able to do this with messenger is beyond me. The external partners on our slack are almost all logged in via gmail or other google workspace. We are on google workspace as well.

cries in google wave

+1, google wave might have been the best thing Google ever made.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#119

> Slack's data access policy is basically "No." For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's odd that it has no details whatsoever on what the issues actually are.

they dont let you extract messages via the API. Keeping Slack message data in their walled garden

You can do workspace wide data export

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

#120
post #11

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).

Hey they can ask Anthropic, but they are using the wrong channel for asking. The right url for such questions is claude.ai.
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