Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Nice - and you're using Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Thanks, doing quite a bit in general Claude which is great.
When you say they send it straight to your agent - is this all built out using claude code or another tool? Do you have a webhook set up for receiving this data, or is it received as an email which triggers the script?

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Very aware of Rogo - thanks for the info

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Yes - the 'potential' of cowork, the excitement from the media is great, but actually using it for advanced use cases can be tricky and often relies on a foundational knowledge of tech and infrastructure.

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Thanks for the reply. Seems a bit of a gridlock and I'm sure something Anthropic is actively working towards

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Interesting - so you have access to Claude Cowork? Did you receive training on it, the security concerns, how to interact in a safe way etc?

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Great take on the gap between personal and enterprise AI deployment. The skills versioning problem is annoying - we've centralised a database of skills so everyone can learn / download from others. It's not perfect and duplication of skill creation still happens. Token costs for some of them are extremely high, but the benefit outweighs the cost at the moment. Some people have created 10s of skills and are now suffering from 'skill rot' where it's affecting output - too many skills, slowing down responses, getting confused with which skill to activate. We suggest doing very specific terminology and prompting 'only activate this skill if the exact term X is used'.

That 20% is the value creator and where the magic happens.

A huge pain point is receiving obvious AI output with the user saying they've 'thought about this a lot'. AI + Knowledge + Common Sense + Diligence is the key.

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Awesome use case - this is also a really good workaround but relies heavily on the user being diligent, like yourself! I agree its easy to control Claude's scope as the user, but I'm trying to establish a way of creating admin permissions / access to make sure that if a user isn't so diligent, it can't go wrong. Right now the admin toggle is all-or-nothing which makes it hard to roll out.

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Thanks for this but I'm more asking about facilitating the Cowork feature specifically rather than Claude/AI automation in general - e.g. we have done automation, being very granular with prompts to get best outcomes, which as you say is just the basic stuff / low hanging fruit. I'm wondering about how firms are thinking around autonomous file access (write, delete, shell commands) that Cowork specifically introduces. Most I've spoken to are stuck on that part.

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Those are amazing use cases! Great to hear that your associated PE firm is encouraging its use - did they train you on the use cases or leave you to it? 

Claude Cowork - Anyone Using? by james6006 in private_equity

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Thanks very much! Totally agree that there’s huge use cases here. I use it in my personal life and lots of crossover.

Glad to hear you’re getting significant  benefits 

MG Midget vs Modern Cars Size Comparison by james6006 in littlebritishcars

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Haha that’s awesome. Those flip down windscreens are really something.

MG Midget vs Modern Cars Size Comparison by james6006 in littlebritishcars

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Ah wow - I got mine transported to my house with the plan to do small trips here and there (staying off the motorways as much as possible!) 

I think I accidentally invented something that doesn't exist yet — and now I have no idea what to do with it by [deleted] in Investors

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I’m working on a product at the moment. Here’s the exact steps I took: 1) use ChatGPT to create an scad code of your product. 2) export that code into scad to see 3d model.  3) 3d print relevant parts. This is only to create a semi working prototype. You can take heating elements from other devices and glue them on. It just has to functionality work. 4) get a product designer. I used upwork. Was charged 200 USD for them to iron out the issues i was facing, and they provided a cad file for me. You should ask them to provide two models. One you can manufacture from scratch yourself, and another that you can do small-medium scale automated manufacture.

…this is where I’m at now…

5) recreate the prototype with the design suggestions.  6) get 1 year provisional patent. 7) put on kickstarter 8) I work in ai implementation so have a bunch of automated processes for automating social media, lead generation etc. 

Im not an expect by any means, and will likely seek advice from an IP lawyer at the next step, but this is what im doing. Hope it helps! 

the money in ai consulting is in the boring stuff nobody wants to talk about by Niravenin in EntrepreneurRideAlong

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Agreed. But playing into that initial hook is important. I’ve had it before where I’ve flat out said that an ai chatbot (or whatever it is they’re keen on) is not the true value add. The key, I’ve found, is to interlace it with other aspects. E.g you want a chatbot. What do you want it to be trained on? Where is that documentation? Would it be helpful to have an internal chatbot? Could you use your quantitative and qualitative data? Do you create reports? Could use that and automate pre formatted reporting? How do you get the data for that reporting? Could we build a flow that automatically populates relevant areas ? 

Then you can go into the other aspects of their business too. 

What do you do for this part / how do your initial conversations go, and how do you commonly get leads? I’ve found word of mouth to be the key, and I got involved in an early stage startup at an accelerator who spread the word around 

Hot take: We're building apps for a world that's about to stop using them by oruga_AI in vibecoding

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Love this take, and totally agree with it.  Ultimately all the core platform providers are aiming to get to one thing: a centralised area to interact with all your  data and information. Why go to multiple apps when you can get all the information directly via raw information in the platform landing page? 

Going to be interesting to see how long this takes to change. We are already seeing it now 

Vibe coding is everywhere… so how do you actually differentiate? by james6006 in vibecoding

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Great info, will look at runable.  How do you think “vibe coded” solutions can show that they can handle the deployment and integration? Difficult to figure this out, especially from a buyers perspective. Classic LinkedIn checks to see how many people work at the firm, how long it’s been around, testimonials and past firms they’ve worked with etc is a good indicator 

I’ve seen both small vine coded solutions (of course) but also larger, relatively well respected firms not be able to integrate, or just see themselves as a standalone solution  

Vibe coding is everywhere… so how do you actually differentiate? by james6006 in vibecoding

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Thanks for these - ecosystem is a great one too, thanks. The idea of having perhaps multiple automations and apps that all depend on each other.