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Eventually there will be an incident with bad software at a hospital or bank that leaves some people dead or broke. Then regulators will take things seriously.
What regulators?
Captured by revolving doors.
Claude for Small Business
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How many of those people, including yourself, actually understand what the technology is, what the risk factors are relative to your existing contracts/obligations, and how what you are doing with the technology interacts with the aforementioned questions. I say this as someone who deals with sales/CRO/CFO functions quite regulary, I have to tell everyone that uploading contracts to Claude and/or ChatGPT does not hol…
Most people don’t understand the tech but they understand it involves moving data into a cloud service like Anthropic and may have risk or breach associated. I think people are generally deciding to take that risk. Executives decide to take these kinds of risks all the time. Our GC would inform us of the risk and we would say “thank you for flagging the concern but let’s proceed anyway.” This is going to vary in all…
i’ve gotta agree with conductr here even though the other guys were making sound arguments… there’s a hysteria that hits a specific corporate weak spot: competition, ergo most logic has been dumped long ago
where do you see this going/any interesting theories?
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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…
>But I'm not saying it is good or bad. Wait, you exposed people to a technology, taught them how to use it, then you are not going to own the implications of that action without teaching them about the risks or telling them how they need to ensure they don't shoot themselves in the face or violate their duty of care? Do you understand what you are saying and the implications of that in the real world relative to the…
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Seems far less scary to me than, say, building an electrical grid in a cold climate, where if it fails for a few days people start to die. Oh wait...
Why would they die in cold climate? I would expect them to die in hot climate (no AC - heat stroke, no refrigerator - food poisoning), not the cold where they would have wood/gas heating.
In lots of places that get very cold, even if the heat source is combustion, electricity is still used for ignition, control and distribution through the house.
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#476Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eventually there will be an incident with bad software at a hospital or bank that leaves some people dead or broke. Then regulators will take things seriously.
What regulators?
i could see this being the thing that pushes the US toward licensing softeware developers like other engineering disciplines.
gotta get a PE to stamp your LLM-generated code in sensitive environments.
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#477I'm increasingly convinced that there's a killer app waiting for whoever can come up with a UI that makes claude code or codex accessible to the average user. Onboarding my non-software engineer teammates to it has super-charged them and essentially given them all their own personal developer that can automate tasks for them. Managing codebases, etc. is still a hassle though. 90% of the power of Excel was that it was…
> 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…
So now average-skilled employees generate even more average-quality work. Is that really a good thing. I don't know if those senior AWS devs are thrilled about having to review a crapton of new code the juniors are churning out literally in their sleep.
We are now measuring productivity in lines-of-code. This is not going to end well, not to mention introduce massive amounts of burnout.
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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 have seen this happening with contracts. Using AI to help evaluate contracts is fine, but I'm getting 5-10 page Claude docs with dozens of asks that they haven't read and many of which don't make sense. I find it pretty counterproductive, because it makes negotiation almost impossible -- you can't tell what the other side wants, because they haven't even read the output.
Or, they never actually sat down to THINK about it, which is even worse.
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#480I’ve noticed that the emphasis in messaging and product from Anthropic is towards monolithic agent usage rather than building systems using agents or building more specialised agents. I listened to a talk by Boris recently and his vision for the future was that “the model just knows”. My guess is that they are trying to increase the cost of switching as much as they possibly can before the VC subsidies run out and th…
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