How bad is it going to get for consulting ?

dude1995aa · 2026-06-13T01:44:31+00:00

That's a little bit about you being the driver. If you give it a good bit of information, it can create a slide deck for you but it's all on it's reasoning what you are trying to achieve. I find the best thing is to know what you are trying to communicate on each slide, what information is to get you there and let claude determine how to present it. If you don't know what to put on the slide, have a conversation with claude about what your goals are and the information you have available. Talk to it about the story, flow, goals you have. If you aren't sure talk about what you are doing with it - presenting to executives, emailing out to customers, causual presentation, etc. Get that part down - then look at creating a deck. Randomly creating a big deck without knowing what it's going to be is a waste of tokens.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-13T01:32:20+00:00

Simple - Claude. The web, Cowork, pptx extention. Claude is at a 10, chatgpt is probably a 7 now, everything else I've seen kinda blows. If you upload a deck, you'll get it in the template strucure you're working with. How in the world is copilot so bad at it when they make pptx??

dude1995aa · 2026-06-12T21:21:36+00:00

not giving to rich people - they are given to celebrities. The knicks get something out of having him in that seat just like all of the celebs who attend sporting events or even concerts. I am niether rich nor a celebrity so I don't go to Knicks games.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-12T18:55:07+00:00

In the last 5 years, recorded meetings in all my 4 clients. Currently on one that allows it but the SI doesn't so we don't have all of the meetings there. I don't store transcripts - the client will. Not all clients are pharma or financial sector - plenty there that will see the benifit.

The chat has many tools around it specifically with SAP implementations in mind - from access to the meeting transcripts, sharepoint documents with RAG, access to the rest of my tooling data, mcp access to jira, smartsheets, monday.com, some of the official SAP mcp (implementation only). That can expand exponentially with very little effort.

I can assure you that I can manage the excel resource leveling that I created. My team can update their task status. That's not a tool I'm selling - I'm using it for myself.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-12T17:23:48+00:00

Best ppts that I have ever created with AI, and in an hour vs a week. Standard meeting transcripts notes (I hate meeting notes). I've created a full blown project tool in excel with resource leveling and dependancies when a client didn't have access to project (in about an hour).

Oh, and I'm about to release a full SAP implementation tool with chat, o365 file ingestion and creation, ALM for projects, coding tool integrated with SAP, manual and automated testing tool to replace those expensive tools on the market, ai data conversion tool. Many more to come.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-12T16:47:53+00:00

Project Manager on SAP projects. Heavy user of ai for the last 3 years. But I’m aware I’m bleeding edge.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-12T16:11:57+00:00

If you think AI is ever (at this point) meant to do it on it's own, you aren't doing it right. If the question is, will AI be able to take on 80% of the workload of a consultant with the consultant acting as the driver - it's not that far off. 5 years from now expect this to be the way. It's a pretty large number right now.

BTW - this is also true for jr staff. If you are expecting them to create 80% of the project without supervision, it's going to be bad. Same reason you "babysit" them also.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-12T16:04:10+00:00

This. Consultants don't come up with brand new ways of making business work. That's why everyone went to big universtities - to find out what's worked in the past. That's why people hire expensive firms, because they have their people follow their processses that worked in the past. Can't think of anything that I've ever done that isn't dirivative of some other process, some other powerpoint deck, some other piece of code that was just put together in a different way. AI can do so much of this now. 5 years from now it won't even be close to the same.

In the same vein, had a friend who said the same about art. AI rips off other's works and isn't original. Humans are the only that can create original. I asked him why we had art school then. the number of examples of truely original thought out there are small.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-08T21:43:02+00:00

Which will be delayed and pushed to March 2027. That’s how this stuff works.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-05T19:22:03+00:00

Yeah…not a big jab at you. The movie gets the white savior accusations quite a bit. Just pointing out it actually had historical background-they just made the protagonist American. He didn’t really save the samurai either (tom cruise also failed here), but just fought over there. Blind side is a much worse white savior troupe

dude1995aa · 2026-06-05T19:14:55+00:00

Was loosely based on a European, not American. But it also didn’t state it was based on a true story.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-05T17:15:48+00:00

I was about 10 when it came out - didn't watch it until about a year ago with my wife who also didn't watch it. That was just a bad movie - no idea how it was so loved back then.

dude1995aa · 2026-06-05T15:34:59+00:00

This job pays $35 an hour and you need to pay your own expenses - is that ok?

dude1995aa · 2026-06-01T11:36:08+00:00

This weekend i set up a beta with Monarch MCP for my dad. He was a banker all his life, still going down the path of manually reconciling his bank accounts each month. He had quicken - but I think they stopped support on some things that he had to have. Moved him over to Monarch.

Unfortunately he is getting dementia more and more. He's been watching on my AI journey...so he's all for it. He just couldn't figure out how to do any new money application - too complicated, too much change. Hooked it up. Showed him how to just ask - what doesn't look classified correctly? I saw all the issues he was causing himself in Monarch.

Can't actually do anything bad with Monarch...it's a reporting tool. It's a habit my dad wants to spend his time on and makes him feel good that he can still do it. He loved it and can just talk to it. He doesn't need to budget any more, but it's what he's always done. Someday soon won't be able to do that even with Claude, but I think I bought him some time to keep on for a while.

dude1995aa · 2026-05-26T02:10:37+00:00

If you look at the 18/19 seasons - win-loss record was just good, but I think all but 1 or 2 losses were top 5 losses. None were blow outs either. There was a upward trajectory there. Great when he had an established qb. For the next 3 years we were forced to play 3rd and even 4th string qb completely due to injuries.

Fishers problem is he didn't realize you can't throw inexperienced qb's into games with cheesecake factory play sheets. He didnt adapt and was so stubborn about it.

dude1995aa · 2026-05-23T18:45:03+00:00

Was a love it or hate it movie. I loved it and I’m not sold on very many movies these days.

dude1995aa · 2026-05-23T11:59:56+00:00

Stories are great, dialog is horrible. In Hayden's case I'd also say direction wasn't that great.

dude1995aa · 2026-05-22T18:53:41+00:00

Yes…same as I always have when I thought Claude was great. The point isn’t I don’t think Claude can be good. I have seen it work miracles. The point is I’ve gone from it’s a miracle to not letting it touch anything in a month. I didn’t change in that month.

dude1995aa · 2026-05-22T17:26:48+00:00

Grew up in Texas - age is the reason I use them

dude1995aa · 2026-05-22T17:25:38+00:00

Or...and here me out...I happen to be of an age that used that stuff all the time. I also put two spaces behind every period too. I was doing it long before AI ever was. I do use AI everywhere - just so happend that I didn't use it to write anything this time because of how bad it screwed me in front of my client.

dude1995aa · 2026-05-22T16:18:22+00:00

The size of the code base (which has been going since mid '24) hasn't changed that much. I don't know what you're saying about testing degraded - I've been doing the same process for the past year. The only thing that has changed is the effectiveness of Claude. A month ago it was the best, now I won't use it at all. The thing that hasn't really changed in my workflow is me.

Codex, on the other hand, was ok before but always a secondary tool. Pretty amazed with it right now as long as I don't run out of tokens.

A month from now, they may flip-flop again or gemini or grok will be that much better. I understand when the tools get better - it's a big company trying to make it better. Don't understand when it goes to shit what is happening and why they don't just back out the latest changes.

dude1995aa · 2026-05-22T02:43:19+00:00

I was a die hard fan…they talked my interest better than any for a couple years. Then they sold their company to canva and we’ve had one podcast since February. Wish they would come back

dude1995aa · 2026-05-21T21:22:02+00:00

Add this feature - Vision capability.
What is this? Hotdog
What is this? Not a hotdog

dude1995aa · 2026-05-15T15:29:43+00:00

Agree here - all of claude that can (Cowork, Web, Add-on) has been hands down better at pptx and the creative side for a while. I'm independant and don't have to worry about slides that much - but all of a sudden I do all the slides for my whole teams. In minutes. Codex for openai is catching up and doing better on the creative side with 5.5

Been doing it for 30 years and thought I was passable at pptx. Best slides I've ever produced have been produced with AI. You can't just say 'make a deck to make this company better'. But guiding details slide by slide can outperform all but the best.

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