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Claude for Small Business

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Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by infecto »

Ucalegon wrote: post #303
infecto wrote: post #298

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just going on and on about compliance when you have no idea about the details. It’s a classic example of how IT fails most large orgs.

Compliance isn't required due to a vendor. Compliance is due to the legal obligations thanks to local regulations and obligations that are defined through contracts with 3rd parties. Saying 'found the Microsoft person' expresses a lack of understanding of the domain.

You kind of just proved my point. Sorry I should not have been joking but i don’t think you have a grasp what’s going on around you.

This is how IT acts in my enterprise orgs. There is absolutely a need for compliance and governance but unfortunately the people in these roles are typically not technically minded and have low incentives to innovate so you get these folks only really arguing for their jobs.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by camillomiller »

windexh8er wrote: post #240

> PayPal powers settlements, invoicing, disputes, and refunds inside Claude. > Intuit QuickBooks handles payroll planning, the monthly close, and cash-flow, along with tools to help businesses prepare for tax season, and reconciliation work that touches every other system. I can't wait for the horror stories, this is going to be fun. Remember last month when Anthropic was like: no, we're not going to refund you even…

These are solved problems that can be extremely efficiently optimized with ML based solutions that require zero LLMs in the loop. This is business compliance on the line so good luck trusting claude on this. Deranged

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by julianlam »

windexh8er wrote: post #240

> PayPal powers settlements, invoicing, disputes, and refunds inside Claude. > Intuit QuickBooks handles payroll planning, the monthly close, and cash-flow, along with tools to help businesses prepare for tax season, and reconciliation work that touches every other system. I can't wait for the horror stories, this is going to be fun. Remember last month when Anthropic was like: no, we're not going to refund you even…

LLMs are bad at deterministic output.

Full stop.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by SoftTalker »

riddlemethat wrote: post #291

I run a small business. I used AI to do book keeping for my LLC with two members (I have a partner). We had used a bookkeeper in previous years but we couldn’t ignore the potential cost savings of using AI. We have a CPA who said the books look great so we will likely no longer need a human to do book keeping. We were able to cancel Quickbooks because of this. Quickbooks (andvanced plan) alone was $3k/year in savings…

What is Claude using to keep the books, if not Quickbooks?

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by jappgar »

elric wrote: post #153
jrickert wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve given it access to my small business books for the last few months (attended sessions only) and so far it’s helped me clean up countless errors made by humans, at the expense of a small handful of duplicated transactions that got shaken out pretty quickly.

How do you know those duplicates are the only errors it made? You weren't aware of the apparently countless human errors before, so how would you be aware of Claude's errors?

This is a very important point.

AI makes different types of mistakes to humans. They're harder for us to see because we're not expecting them.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by acjohnson55 »

noisy_boy wrote: post #299
throwatdem12311 wrote: post #238

There is going to be so many horror stories that will come from this, ie. Claude overpaid/underpaid my employees, Claude hallucinated the tax code and now the IRS is seizing my assets. etc… Murphy’s Law is undefeated. Add in a psycophantic hallucination black box to critical business data and you have a recipe for hilarity. Normies cannot be trusted to hand off these functions to an LLM because they are mostly incapa…

Certified AI Auditor jobs incoming.

I do think there is going to be an entire risk market for insuring against AI mistakes.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by dakolli »

riddlemethat wrote: post #291

I run a small business. I used AI to do book keeping for my LLC with two members (I have a partner). We had used a bookkeeper in previous years but we couldn’t ignore the potential cost savings of using AI. We have a CPA who said the books look great so we will likely no longer need a human to do book keeping. We were able to cancel Quickbooks because of this. Quickbooks (andvanced plan) alone was $3k/year in savings…

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.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by kibwen »

riddlemethat wrote: post #291

I run a small business. I used AI to do book keeping for my LLC with two members (I have a partner). We had used a bookkeeper in previous years but we couldn’t ignore the potential cost savings of using AI. We have a CPA who said the books look great so we will likely no longer need a human to do book keeping. We were able to cancel Quickbooks because of this. Quickbooks (andvanced plan) alone was $3k/year in savings…

Then I have good news, you can save even more money by cancelling your Claude plan and using GnuCash for free, without having to worry about the inevitability of having your financials hallucinated.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by Nicholas_C »

SoftTalker wrote: post #324
riddlemethat wrote: post #291

I run a small business. I used AI to do book keeping for my LLC with two members (I have a partner). We had used a bookkeeper in previous years but we couldn’t ignore the potential cost savings of using AI. We have a CPA who said the books look great so we will likely no longer need a human to do book keeping. We were able to cancel Quickbooks because of this. Quickbooks (andvanced plan) alone was $3k/year in savings…

What is Claude using to keep the books, if not Quickbooks?

If they’re just using excel or their LLM vibe coded its own double entry accounting system this is a pretty bad idea.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by dominotw »

ageitgey wrote: post #191
Ucalegon wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Every executive/leader I've shown Claude Cowork to has gone from 'what is AI' to 'vibecoding whole apps' in weeks. Do you, and those executives, own the risks associated with that practice? Are those risks actually indemnified? Its neat that 'anyone can do anything' but if they don't actually know what the risk to business or 3rd parties, why is this a good thing, especially in the enterprise where there are actors…

These are largely friends and peers, so they ultimately own their own risks. But I'm not saying it is good or bad. I'm just telling you what is happening in the real world. Every senior person I know, whether a high tech exec or a solo coffee bean importer, is vibing to some degree. Some will be more successful than others. I've been working in tech since the late 90s. This is the biggest and most sudden change in co…

saying "every X i know" in all your comments is a bit ridiculous.

You comments read like reddit clickbait. How many of these executives/senior/coffee bean/whatever ppl do you even know and why you the one enlightening them with claude cowork ? . "Every X i know" sounds like a large sample size. Make ridiculous claims by prefixing " every X i know" .

I feel so angry at this linkedin speak. so infuriating. Hate that we've accepted these ppl without any pushback.

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