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Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by fhd2 »

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…

Definitely my experience. I manage context like a hawk, be it with Claude-as-Google-replacement or LLM integrations into systems. Too little and the results are off. Too much and the results are off.

Not sure what Anthropic and co can do about that, but integrations feel like a step in the wrong direction. Whenever I've tried tool use, it was orders of magnitude more expensive and generally inferior to a simple model call with curated context from SerpApi and such.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by arnaudsm »

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.

I get often ratelimited or blocked from websites because I browse them too fast with my keyboard and mouse. The AI would be slowed down significantly.

LLM-desktop interfaces make great demos, but they are too slow to be usable in practice.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by user_7832 »

throwup238 wrote: post #16

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 d…

I agree with your overall message - rapid growth appears to encourage competition and forces companies to put their best foot forward.

However, unfortunately, I cannot shower much praise on Claude 3.7. And if you (or anyone) asks why - 3.7 seems much better than 3.5, surely? - Then I’m moderately sure that you use Claude much more for coding than for any kind of conversation. In my opinion, even 3.5 Haiku (which is available for free during high loads) is better than 3.7 Sonnet.

Here’s a simple test. Try asking 3.7 to intuitively explain anything technical - say, mass dominated vs spring dominated oscillations. I’m a mechanical engineer who studied this stuff and I could not understand 3.7’s analogies.

I understand that coders are the largest single group of Claude’s users, but Claude went from being my most used app to being used only after both chatgpt and Gemini, something that I absolutely regret.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by 6stringmerc »

Feed Claude the data willingly to learn more about human behavior they can’t scrape or obtain otherwise without consent? Hard pass. I’m not telling any AI any more about what it means to be a creative person because training it how to suffer will only further hurt my job prospects. Nice try, no dice.

Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by [deleted] »

mikepurvis wrote: post #11
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.

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Re: Claude Integrations

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Post by n_ary »

Is this the beginning of the apps for everything era and finally the SaaS for your LLM begins? Initially we had internet but value came when instead of installed apps, webapps arrived to become SaaS. Now if LLMs can use specific remote MCP which is another SaaS for your LLM, the remote MCP powered service can charge a subscription to do wonderful things and voila! Let the new golden age of SaaS for LLMs begin and the old fad(replace job XYZ with AI) die already.
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