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Claude for Small Business

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Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by brobdingnagians »

darepublic wrote: post #228
ageitgey wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user That's what they aim Claude Cowork at. Every executive/leader I've shown Claude Cowork to has gone from 'what is AI' to 'vibecoding whole apps' in weeks. Then when Claude is down for an hour, they get visibly angry and don't remember how to do anything pre-Claude :) I understand the impulse to provide a UI to manage codebases, etc. But my observation is…

I have seen people just generate large docs with Claude cowork and they themselves have not scrutinized it or know why/how it's useful. It's just kind of impressive in its volume and well formatedness. And then they dump it in your lap as being helpful

I'm a victim of this. Very bad taste of AI generated gibberish that was obviously not read through before being sent.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by Ucalegon »

infecto wrote: post #399
Ucalegon wrote: post #386

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There is a fundamental difference between non-technical users from using Claude, or any other LLM, for whatever reason and whatever they produce being produced into production. There are significant reasons why an organization would not want to use Cowork, because it does not fall under Anthropic's ZDR [0], which is a huge issue for... anyone dealing with anything sensitive. What I think this comes down to is that yo…

Again you’re raising a bunch of issues that don’t matter in this thread and can only be answered by the specific business groups that are trying to utilize tools like Claude code. They are mostly worthy questions but you are attacking them very specifically and honestly I don’t think relevant to the discussion where someone talked about show the art of possible to people.

So we have moved the goalposts to this point.

I am sorry you feel this way, it does not change the facts of whats being discussed, its just that you disagree and you lacked the initial courage or intellectual capabilities to express that constructively, so you had to obfuscate through providing nothing of value to the discussion via low value comments. I get that YOU don't think something, but just because YOU feel something doesn't make it valid, grounded in reason, or should be listened too.

Have a great rest of your day and weekend!

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by infecto »

Ucalegon wrote: post #423
infecto wrote: post #399

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again you’re raising a bunch of issues that don’t matter in this thread and can only be answered by the specific business groups that are trying to utilize tools like Claude code. They are mostly worthy questions but you are attacking them very specifically and honestly I don’t think relevant to the discussion where someone talked about show the art of possible to people.

So we have moved the goalposts to this point. I am sorry you feel this way, it does not change the facts of whats being discussed, its just that you disagree and you lacked the initial courage or intellectual capabilities to express that constructively, so you had to obfuscate through providing nothing of value to the discussion via low value comments. I get that YOU don't think something, but just because YOU feel s…

Others pointed it out better but you jumped to a conclusion in 30 seconds pointing out pointed legal and risk asks that don’t apply to the thread. Just look at the other threads of conversation where you go massively downvoted. You can capitalize YOU all you want but my point still stands. Yall are jumping to oddly specific conclusions that don’t matter in this thread. There is an absolutely interesting discussion around risk to be had but you attacking someone’s 30second paragraph about their anecdote does not open the door.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by recitedropper »

Ucalegon wrote: post #169
trumbitta2 wrote: post #163

Let me get this straight: a few times per month, someone posts horror stories about how Claude led to losing data and money. Anthropic's response: let's make a nice package out of this, and let's target specifically the businesses that are less likely to be ready to manage such horrible events.

The reality is, for a lot of people, they do not care about risk or implication or cost, as so long as they see things moving forward, especially if they do not understand what they are dealing with. The desire of 'build, build, build', to these people does not have a downside because they do not have the knowledge of what the implications of that actually means nor is there a culture associated with the duty of care…

This is such an excellent summary of everything wrong with Silicon Valley's current ethos.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by Ucalegon »

caminante wrote: post #396
Ucalegon wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is a fundamental difference between non-technical users from using Claude, or any other LLM, for whatever reason and whatever they produce being produced into production. There are significant reasons why an organization would not want to use Cowork, because it does not fall under Anthropic's ZDR [0], which is a huge issue for... anyone dealing with anything sensitive. What I think this comes down to is that yo…

This guy's acting in bad faith. Sorry you got swept into this.

I know. I don't expect them to come up with anything, but its fun to see how far they will backtrack/change the goalposts and how much they will tie themselves into knots to try and justify their lack of integrity.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by zer0tonin »

scoutt wrote: post #352
ryanmcgarvey wrote: post #242

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We joke, but I bet this will help to drastically reduce ScamInc's revenue.

ScamInc might also have a platform to create perfect invoices, perfect email conversations, scanning LinkedIn to find the right people to scam, etc.

Might? They have had that for a year at least. Plus an entire office block of slave workers in Cambodia.

Re: Claude for Small Business

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Post by bandrami »

mannanj wrote: post #407
senexox wrote: post #214

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Exactly. The tools aren't the rate limiting factor for me. I can automate an entire department right now with Claude but I can't because of regulations and audits. Basically, turning an error prone manual process into a probabilistic process that Claude would do far more accurately in the end than what we do now. The process wouldn't be "repeatable" though by the letter of the regulation so would open the company up…

Makes me wonder though, how likely it is your field/industry/discipline/company/business is to be replaced by some small player who makes the risk, doesn't get caught or deterred early enough, and then either becomes large enough to sway the industry regulation or pay off or otherwise continue to deter enforcement onto them. Isn't it the uber model? Isn't that likely where the future is to go with this new uncertain…

The procurement and certification processes we go through are basically specifically designed to keep a scrappy startup with the next new idea from ever winning a contract without significant institutional buy-in, for reasons that will probably become clear as other sectors deal with the fallout of the past two fiscal quarters in maintenance costs
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