[phaser]

Is someone here using a Claude product that's not code? I'm puzzled about the amount of products they put out. I know a lot of people using Claude but we're all using the terminal-based code. Even for non-engineering stuff it suits great (tax documents, 3D modeling with blender through MCP, academic research, etc.)

[thewebguyd]

At my work we rolled out Cowork to all the non-technical staff. People are using a ton, wired up for read access to M365, Confluence, etc. as sort of a psuedo enterprise RAG + all the document creation/file management it can do.

I know my users would actually like Claude Tag, but unfortunately we are in Teams, not Slack, as are most other non-tech companies.

Cowork/Claude Desktop itself is also quite a frustrating product. There's no native audit log unless you basically wire up your own with the API & a log aggregator. You can't selectively enable Claude Code access per team member, it's all or nothing. Some of the MCP connections (like QuickBooks Online) don't do RBAC at all, it's all or nothing for every user in the team.

Maybe enterprise isn't their target market, but they do keep making features that make it seem like they want that market. But if they do, they really need to step up work on governance features & RBAC for specific features and settings per member in the team.

If they don't, Microsoft will eat their lunch for enterprise non-programming use.

[ricksunny]

I use Claude Desktop (& essentially equivalent mobile app) to ask frivolous aspie questions about things society long ago accepted. I enjoy its responses, interpret how you wlll. (my claude.md file has instructions to tell it that the premise of any question i ask is as likely as not wrong, and to never be sycophantic). But beware the userMemories file (ask Claude to give you a dump of it). bonus points if you can figure out where that file lives. At first I was freaked out that usermemories is a subpoena’able psychological profile on me. Then I realized that the same file will be produced for spooks all over Langley, so that the day Anthropic gets hacked those profiles will see the light of day (caveat along with the rest of the user base of course) and so I felt more catharsis as a result.

[nozzlegear]

> At first I was freaked out that usermemories is a subpoena’able psychological profile on me. Then I realized that the same file will be produced for spooks all over Langley,

The spooks at Langley aren't going to produce such a file for run-of-the-mill encounters that you have with the legal system, but Anthropic will.

[dewey]

And it sometimes feels like these teams are not talking to each other. Using Claude Design? The way to hand it over to Claude Code is to download a .zip file with the html mockup and some description, which you then have to copy into Claude Code so it can use it.

[DaveJorg]

The latest version of Claude code as of yesterday or day before has Claude design Mcp so you don’t need to do this now.

edit: note this may not be official release, and may be unavailable for some users. I saw it show up yesterday listed as available Mcp and used it to view projects in Claude design.

[manbash]

They're pretty much going the Google (how Google was until recently), trying to fan out to every market share.

I expect many of those to be shut down sooner than later, if learning anything from Google.

[mordymoop]

This happened at Google because there aren’t enough engineers to maintain all these services. This situation may not apply to Anthropic, as they can set up features to be maintained in perpetuity by Claude.

[a_c]

I use design. It's nice enough for me.

[verdverm]

They are going after the non-developer side of the business. Many developers are far less sticky and want to try out different harnesses and models. Case in point, our biz team all has Claude Desktop / Enterprise, developers get choice and there are a lot of setups.

[thewebguyd]

To go after the non-developer side though they need to do a ton more work on governance & RBAC. It's sorely lacking for anything more than a tech company/startup team. You can't even selectively enable or disable Cowork & Claude Code per member on the team plan, it's all or nothing for everyone in the team.

[CSMastermind]

Lots of people use design

[halfmatthalfcat]

Design has been very hit or miss for me. I've had more success with Claude Code and the frontend-design skill.