The demise of saas has been overplayed imho. When companies buy software they are essentially buying something that solves a problem and the insurance that comes with that. Part of that means they get to pick up the phone and complain if something doesn't work and someone on the other end has to listen. There is also a strong community aspect to software, someone asks for an enhancement others can benefit etc. I just…
Right on.. we already have open source alternative to all the major SaaS out there and companies still opt for the SaaS option instead to avoid the headache of self-hosting and all the other stuff. The extra resources that AI affords you will be directed to building more features for your customers.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
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#912The demise of saas has been overplayed imho. When companies buy software they are essentially buying something that solves a problem and the insurance that comes with that. Part of that means they get to pick up the phone and complain if something doesn't work and someone on the other end has to listen. There is also a strong community aspect to software, someone asks for an enhancement others can benefit etc. I just…
it's not the end of software, there will be infinitely more of it it's the end of 80-90% margins that the valley coasted on for the last 20 years. Salesforces of the world will not lose to an LLM, they will lose to thousands of tiny teams that outship them and beat them on cost instead of 7 figure contracts you'll have customized tailored tools for enterprises, and on the other end you'll have a custom nearly free CR…
Because their product is actually two things: (1) a UI/app & (2) a highly curated data model.
My imagined future... they just stop building (1), or invest much less in it, and focus on (2).
If they can build a compelling data foundation (ingest / processing / storage / exposing) + do much less work to still cover 80% of UI functionality + offload the remaining 20% of work onto customers, that looks defensible financially and strategically.
There's a ton of feature requests that are driven by a few customers. Aka the "You're using it wrong. We don't care, we want it to do X" cases
There are very few VP+'s out there that would take on strategic data integrity risk in exchange for anything, and as new SaaS code quality likely goes down (lets be honest) the imprimatur of a "known name" on the data side becomes more important.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
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#915Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sent Opus a photo of NYC at night satellite view and it was describing "blue skies and cliffs/shore line"... mistral did it better, specific use case but yeah. OpenAI was just like "you can't submit a photo by URL". Was going to try Gemini but kept bringing up vertexai. This is with Langchain
I just sent Opus a NYC night satellite view and it described it just as expected. Seems like you have a tooling problem, not a model problem.
satellite_imagery_analysis_agent = create_agent( model="claude-opus-4-6", system_prompt="your task is to analyze satellite images" )
response = satellite_imagery_analysis_agent.invoke({ "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What do you see in this satellite image? https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1446776899648-aa78eefe8ed0..." } ] })
With this output:
# Satellite Image Analysis
I can see this image shows an *aerial/satellite view of a coastline*. Here are the key features I can identify:
## Geographic Features - *Ocean/Sea*: A large body of deep blue water dominates a significant portion of the image - *Coastline*: A clearly defined boundary between land and water with what appears to be a rugged or natural shoreline - *Beach/Shore*: Light-colored sandy or rocky coastal areas visible along the water's edge
## Terrain - *Varied topography*: The land area shows a mix of greens and browns, suggesting: - Vegetated areas (green patches) - Arid or bare terrain (brown/tan areas) - *Possible cliffs or elevated terrain* along portions of the coast
## Atmospheric Conditions - *Cloud cover*: There appear to be some clouds or haze in parts of the image - Generally clear conditions allowing good visibility of surface features
## Notable Observations - The color contrast between the *turquoise/shallow nearshore waters* and the *deeper blue offshore waters* suggests varying ocean depths (bathymetry) - The coastline geometry suggests this could be a *peninsula, island, or prominent headland* - The landscape appears relatively *semi-arid* based on the vegetation patterns
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Note: Without precise geolocation metadata, I'm providing a general analysis based on visible features. The image appears to capture a scenic coastal region, possibly in a Mediterranean, subtropical, or tropical climate zone.
Would you like me to focus on any specific aspect of this image?
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#916Earlier quoted context omitted.
> trained out No need. Just add one more correction to the system prompt. It's amusing to see hardcore believers of this tech doing mental gymnastics and attacking people whenever evidence of there being no intelligence in these tools is brought forth. Then the tool is "just" a statistical model, and clearly the user is holding it wrong, doesn't understand how it works, etc.
I mean, the flipside is that we have been tricking humans with this sort of thing for generations. We've all seen a hundred variations on "A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?" or "If 5 machines take 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long do 100 machines take to make 100 widgets?" or even the whole "the father was the surgeon" story. If you don't re…
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#917I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.
Anthropic was the first to spam reddit with fake users and posts, flooding and controlling their subreddit to be a giant sycophant. They nuked the internet by themselves. Basically they are the willing and happy instigators of the dead internet as long as they profit from it. They are by no means ethical, they are a for-profit company.
Is the Claude subreddit less authentic than the ChatGPT one?
I remember for a while the Claude subreddit was filled with people saying "I asked Claude if it was conscious and the answer was soooo fascinating you guys."
I think the ChatGPT one was filled with posts like "I had ChatGPT write my resume and now I'm rolling in cash!"
I found both subreddits unreadable.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#918The demise of saas has been overplayed imho. When companies buy software they are essentially buying something that solves a problem and the insurance that comes with that. Part of that means they get to pick up the phone and complain if something doesn't work and someone on the other end has to listen. There is also a strong community aspect to software, someone asks for an enhancement others can benefit etc. I just…
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#919The demise of saas has been overplayed imho. When companies buy software they are essentially buying something that solves a problem and the insurance that comes with that. Part of that means they get to pick up the phone and complain if something doesn't work and someone on the other end has to listen. There is also a strong community aspect to software, someone asks for an enhancement others can benefit etc. I just…
I agree on that point. But I think the industry will still take a huge hit. As SaaS may not be killed by any random individuals, but big corps.
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We just moved from sharing skills about good practice for a few functions to skills about good architecture/design/marketing practices.
It's just a question of time before we get skills about "good features in a CRM". And there is a high chance, a LLM will generate them in a few minutes ^_^
We could already do them for a few software, like notepads and ticketing software.
IMO any fully virtualized business will become trivialized through global knowledge sharing.
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I don't think META/MICROSOFT/OPENAI will close their eyes on the "Amazon Basics" strategy. IMO they will (soon?) provide high scale replacements for simple and expected softwares.
Right now it would require them a lot of defocus. But soon it will be just a new product, an agent away.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#920I see a big focus on computer use - you can tell they think there is a lot of value there and in truth it may be as big as coding if they convincingly pull it off. However I am still mystified by the safety aspect. They say the model has greatly improved resistance. But their own safety evaluation says 8% of the time their automated adversarial system was able to one-shot a successful injection takeover even with saf…
I am just shocked to see people are letting these tools run freely even on their personal computers without hardening the access and execution range. I wish there was something like Lulu for file system access for an app/tool installed on a mac where I could set “/path” and that tool could access only that folder or its children and nothing else, if it tried I would get a popup. (Without relying on the tool’s (e.g. C…
> if it tried I would get a popup
Ok, that's not implemented yet but using a custom FUSE-based file system (or using something like Armin Rohnacher's new sandboxing solution[0]) it shouldn't be too hard. I bet you could ask Claude to write that. :)