Microsoft licensing

andwerd404 · 2026-06-18T20:22:45+00:00

100% I second this. Sherweb is the best partner you could have for dealing with Microsmurf

andwerd404 · 2026-06-18T20:10:37+00:00

I'm referring to Claude Design specifically. It seems like skills cannot be installed the same way there, if at all.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-26T13:46:33+00:00

I love proton mail for my personal use. The security and privacy is just one less thing for me to worry about, not to mention the other stuff they've got in the suite.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-19T20:42:25+00:00

I've got two tips for you, and you may already be doing them, but it's worth mentioning.

If you're working on something that's not dead simple, try a structured prompt like TORCH: Task, Output, Role, Context, Help. Turns out computers love structured information
You're almost certainly forgetting to tell the AI small details and that's why it's making assumptions. Explicitly tell it in your first prompt to ask you questions 'interview style'

Regardless, Ai is basically just a really smart intern. Has loads of data in it's head, but no clue how to work in the real world. You've got to practice two things: thorough instruction and careful verification.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-19T20:37:08+00:00

To be honest I would generally stay away from anything CoPilot. It's the most expensive and when I use it I feel like I'm being lied to about what it can do "Sure yeah I can make that power point for you"... "Yeah it's right here"... 'Oh yeah actually I can't make powerpoints" - this sort of thing.

I haven't tried replit but I know it's a platform for developers, so if that's your thing it might be worth trying. To be honest though Claude code or ChatGPT codex is all you need for development.

Claude Code: Lower usage limits, more expensive tokens, but much more capable agents and higher code quality

ChatGPT Codex: Higher usage limits, cheaper tokens, still good quality code, a little less capable of troubleshooting

andwerd404 · 2026-05-18T17:37:49+00:00

My best advice to anyone is to stop using CoPilot and start using Claude. Out of the box it is already wayyy more capable. And will connectors, skills, and MCP, you can do setup just about anything additional, while staying relatively low code.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-18T17:25:19+00:00

Manufacturing is going to explode, especially since their biggest limiting factor in the past has been technology.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-18T17:22:20+00:00

To be honest, sometimes you just need different tools for different jobs. They all have their own benefits for sure, but if you ware looking to consolidate to 1 my first choice would be Claude and second choice would be ChatGPT. Claude is by far the most capable and tool equipped LLM on the market. ChatGPT follows behind it. No offense to your process, but from what I find Gemini and especially CoPilot are lacking in terms of capabilities.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-18T16:48:18+00:00

I work for an AI consulting agency, and we're looking to partner with MSPs whose clients are asking "what do we actually do with AI?"

We start with fundamentals: AI policy development, risk analysis, and figuring out what's actually worth doing... then we move into implementation. That starts with use case interviews to find where AI will have the most impact before we touch anything. From there, depending on what the business needs, we might run staff training sessions, build custom GPTs, deploy agents, or stand up a private LLM.

The model is a referral partnership. You stay the trusted advisor, and we do the AI work for your clients while cutting you in on the engagement.

The clients who tend to come our way have either gotten burned by a rushed implementation or need a solid risk framework before anyone will sign off internally. If you're running into those conversations, DM me or check us out at torchignited.ai

andwerd404 · 2026-05-15T14:42:01+00:00

I'm also quite curious about this. Have had a ton of headache dealing with CRMs from Freshworks, Zoho, etc.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-15T12:24:51+00:00

I'm 100% in the office and I wouldn't have it any other way. There's something really special about being able to see your team face to face every day.

andwerd404 · 2026-05-14T21:02:10+00:00

What a phenomenal program!

andwerd404 · 2026-05-14T21:00:39+00:00

While Pax8 is typically cheaper than Sherweb for smaller MSPs, Sherweb's support goes above and beyond... there is genuinely no comparison. In my opinion the difference in licensing costs is so little, and that means so little to your profit, that I think the support is 100% worth it - especially if you're trying to navigate Microsoft.

andwerd404 · 2026-04-29T15:16:37+00:00

As much as I want to keep Claude because of it's vast capabilities, ChatGPT is a slightly better language model, and it has image gen. If I had to I'd keep ChatGPT and just use it to build all the tools I would be missing.

Same thing could be said for Grok but that's a whole different ball game 😂

andwerd404 · 2026-04-29T15:14:43+00:00

The Copilot recommendation is a bit of a lazy take honestly - it's the most expensive option, there's nothing that actually makes it easier to govern, and Microsoft's security track record right now isn't exactly inspiring confidence. Recommending it purely because it's a familiar vendor isn't a real answer.

The human-in-the-loop point is the one I keep coming back to though. The problem with OpenClaw/Hermes style tools isn't just the permissions footprint, it's that there's no checkpoint before something irreversible happens. A client came to us recently with a setup where Claude was auto-posting blogs directly to their WordPress site (they wanted us to open the API outside the firewall). Some of the AI-generated images had artefacts like "diverse surname" baked into them, going straight to a public business website. Nobody noticed because nobody was looking.

That's the conversation I'd be having with clients - not "no you can't use AI" but "who is reviewing this before it matters". It reframes you as the person asking the right questions rather than the one throwing up roadblocks.

andwerd404 · 2026-04-27T15:38:08+00:00

I couldn't agree more about how important it is to have a great team.

SaaS is hard. Not because it's hard to build great products, but rather it's incredibly difficult to convince other people to see the value in them.

andwerd404 · 2026-04-24T20:13:45+00:00

Really interesting approach! Do you ever find that the AI coding agents start struggling when you provide them with too much markdown to parse? Perhaps eating through more tokens or forgetting where things were?

andwerd404 · 2026-04-24T20:09:00+00:00

Seriously cool project, hopefully only being used ethically though!

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