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Posted by neilfrndes 7 hours ago

Claude for Small Business(www.anthropic.com)
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penetrarthur 1 hour ago|
Is there a way to find "the concerns" of people from back when MS Excel was becoming a thing? Maybe someone here can share how people took the introduction of the early days "productivity tools" like MS Word and MS Excel?
redsocksfan45 1 hour ago||
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generous0 54 minutes ago||
MS Excel was a latecomer. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet as we today know them and it was a resounding success. There weren't much concerns, there weren't really a reason to be concerned. It was not a probabilistic tool made by fascist billionaires for explicit fascist purposes exploiting the poor and destroying the environment. No. It just crunched numbers on a very accessible interface.

Ps.: see http://www.bricklin.com/firstspreadsheetquestion.htm on whether VisiCalc was the first or not.

TurdF3rguson 5 hours ago||
My initial take is bad idea because those people don't have the kind of security hygiene instincts that make CC a sane choice for coders.
AlecSchueler 4 hours ago||
You say that as if a tonne of people haven't already hooked their agents up to all their services on YOLO mode.
TurdF3rguson 3 hours ago||
Yeah that's what I'm saying. I would only recommend CC to people who I know are smart enough to not shoot their feet off.
small_scombrus 2 hours ago||
> those people don't have the kind of security hygiene instincts that make CC a sane choice for coders.

Coders don't all have those kind of security hygiene instincts either

elric 3 hours ago||
> As part of our public benefit mission, we are committed to helping business owners harness AI more fully and effectively for their most important work.

That's rich. What public benefit mission? The benefit of extracting money from the public?

vidarh 1 hour ago|
Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation. Whether you believe that makes a difference or not, they need to at a minimum pay lip service to that.
TodorGrudev 1 hour ago||
Looks promising, but not sure how exactly will help the small businesses. The current app/software stores are flooded with new vibe-coded stuff hence it seems ppl already handling using different dev tools for releasing new apps.
tactlesscamel 1 hour ago||
10 years working with SMB. They don't use it now because complexity and cost. While the majority of users here seem to be interested in offloading their bank account to AI for "productivity" or whatever, most SMBs die in 1-3 years and struggle through with chump-change.

If you want to help SMB, stop with the interconnectivity hype of bringing outrageously expensive software together. Try making something that really helps instead of syphens more money and hurts the workforce. Seriously, what's Claude going to do for a landscaper using pen-and-paper anyway? That's the majority of your SMB. The grifting MSPs are your target for this bs.

dools 2 hours ago||
I’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 they have to 10x their prices.

j-bos 28 minutes ago|
> his vision for the future was that “the model just knows”

Possibly, could also just mean that they've internalized the bitter lesson. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...

cdnsteve 2 hours ago||
Does it help track me all the expenses from email and make them Booker ready or accountant ready. Worst paperwork job ever.
ClassicPaterson 7 hours ago||
Kinda weird to assume that a "small" business would have $16.9m cash on hand...
jdlshore 6 hours ago|
Small businesses are bigger than you think they are. A company with $100 million revenue per year could still be a small business.

You might be assuming small businesses have less than ten people. That’s a category of small business called a “micro-business” or microenterprise, depending on funding model.

ido 6 hours ago|||
Had to look it up, but instagram had 13 employees when they sold to Facebook for $1 billion (for some reason I remembered them being 9 people). I know multiple gale devs who had single digit (or low double digits) staff when they were already making many millions in revenue/profit.
black3r 4 hours ago|||
Different countries use different definitions of what "small business" or "micro business" is. And people usually use their own local expectations they're used to. I'm not from the US and a company with 100 million revenue is far from a small business to me.

In EU where I'm from the micro/small/medium business sizes are tied to both employee count AND revenue. Micro is below 10 employees and below 2 million € revenue, Small is below 50 employees and below 10 million € revenue, Medium is below 250 employees and 50 million € revenue.

So if you had 100 million revenue you would be a large business even if you had less than ten people.

nimchimpsky 4 hours ago||
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nozzlegear 5 hours ago||
I think I have Claude fatigue.
shantnutiwari 2 hours ago|
I think everyone of us has Claude fatigue, except a few fanboys with financial incentive.

Just today there are 3 stories on front page about Claude--seems to me someones PR is working overtime

chasebank 7 hours ago|
FYI, the definition of small business in the US is fewer than 500 employees.
ycombinete 6 hours ago||
Any business greater than Dunbar's Number should not be considered small.
esperent 6 hours ago||
Damn, that's an order of magnitude higher than the rest of the world.

Never in my life would I have thought a business with more than 100 employees could be considered small. In the EU the cutoff is 50.

_fizz_buzz_ 6 hours ago|||
My understanding is that the US doesn’t really have an official category called “medium sized”. So I think the “small business” category is better compared to EU’s SME category (small-medium-enterprise), which is often lumped together.
cantalopes 5 hours ago|||
Yeah and if you have 20-50 people aboard you are already considered medium/big sized company. 500 is HUGE
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