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Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course it is. Making shovels and digging holes are different skills and require different organizations.

But this is a magic shovel that digs holes and tunnels all by itself exactly as intended. It should be able to do this without any special skill involved in prompting it.

You're thinking post-scarcity. We aren't there yet, but one say well have a magic wand, magic shovel, and magic anything else that is currently scarce.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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post #5

"A slack that doesn't suck" doesn't exist, and whoever thinks Anthropic of all people are going to build that has no idea how this is going to work. Slack has massive lock in due to cross-organization connections. The only way you're going to get people off slack is to build a 10x better mode for collaboration than river of shit chat, and while such models probably exist, you also have to convince people that they ar…

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.

If you are on Google Workspace, just use chat.google.com: it's not bad. All it takes is just a benevolent dictator (or more realistically a bean counter) at work saying they don't want the company to pay for Slack in addition to Google Workspace.

Re: Anthropic, please make a new Slack

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> 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.

Yes - and I have never actually needed data access anyway.

I treat Slack as mostly ephemeral, and any real knowledge should be put into source control.

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