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Posted by neilfrndes 10 hours ago

Claude for Small Business(www.anthropic.com)
371 points | 328 commentspage 5
TodorGrudev 4 hours 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.
dakolli 1 hour ago||
Its trivial to prompt inject these tool connected "agents". I've spent the last 6 months spending a ton of my free time hacking on these things with different steno techniques, you'd be surprised what behavior I can trigger with a single malicious PDF, even SOTA models. Anthropic actually has one of the most irresponsible implementations of document OCR out of all models, bad things will happen (and are happening).

These "people" fundamentally misunderstand how tech illiterate the average person is and don't care about AI outside it appearing in their search results as an occasional convenience. My Mom (in her 50s) heard about ChatGPT for the first time this month and doesn't care about it, nor eager to figure it out.

Small business owners are not going to put their life's work in the hands of AI, they don't even trust the most basic versions of it and they're certainly not going to use "agents", and the ones that do trust it are naively going to overly trust it because the faulty marketing from these companies and very bad things are going to happen.

northernsausage 8 hours ago||
"Closing the month with fewer errors."

Inspiring quote there.

sourcecodeplz 3 hours ago||
"From these tools, it can plan payroll, close the month, run a sales campaign, chase invoices, and more." wow
goldylochness 2 hours ago||
this is a great idea btw
suyavuz 7 hours ago||
We used to wire tools together with APIs and webhooks. Now the interesting bit is Claude sitting in the middle with MCP, keeping context while moving between them.
devmor 10 hours ago||
If I heard my employer was using Claude to manage payroll, I’d be looking for a new job - quickly.
tjpnz 9 hours ago||
If I've learned anything in my career it's that you'll find your most dependable people in payroll.
nunodonato 5 hours ago||
why? you could leverage that and with some nice prompt injections get a raise :D
SilverElfin 10 hours ago||
Isn’t Cowork a tough thing to trust? What if it goes wrong, especially in the hands of users that aren’t programmers? Anthropic is releasing these vibe codes products continuously and I feel like it’s only a matter of time before something goes wrong. Shouldn’t they focus on safety and security first before releasing these?
8note 9 hours ago|
theres a pretty clear underlying system somebody needs to make "git for business"
xboxnolifes 7 hours ago|||
Realistically, git for business is hourly backups. Though, so much of business software has moved to SaaS, so that's difficult to do yourself and instead you need to rely on every individual service having revisions and rollbacks.
yowlingcat 9 hours ago||||
I've been really enjoying claude design but my biggest critique of it (and frankly how vanilla claude handles files in general) is that it has no native conception of git-like version control. In code land you can work around this with harnesses so there's only so much harm claude code/opencode can do, but to your point in small biz land when it's putzing around with a system of record without rewindability, things could get really messy really fast.

A couple more thoughts here - the hard part is not just the data side of it, it's replaying/unplaying actions. Many actions are non-reversible. Code is clean in the same way that google docs is clean. But for many business processes, some actions just can't be unwound once started. If claude initiates a wire that it shouldn't, no amount of git technology will undo that wire.

teekert 9 hours ago|||
ZFS?
simianwords 10 hours ago|
What's new here? It looks good - accessing connectors using Claude but not sure whether there's something fundamentally novel
neuronexmachina 9 hours ago|
I think it's essentially this plugin? https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins/tree/ma...
simianwords 9 hours ago||
Looks useful, so they are new plugins. But what are plugins vs skills vs connectors?
didibus 9 hours ago||
A plugin is just a bundle of MCPs, skills and templated prompts.

A skill cannot provide MCPs and can't provide custom template prompts, each skill is it's own slash command.

A plugin you can define N number of custom slash commands, and you can define MCPs as well as skills. So it bundles like all the things together.

By installing a plugin, you are basically installing a bunch of MCPs, skills and custom slash command prompts.

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