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I spoke with a (potentially biased) member of technical staff @ Anthropic today who claimed that tags w/ multi-player capability is the biggest thing they've shipped since Claude Code.

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Is this the same Anthropic speaking as the one that's constantly terrified their newest thing is too dangerous and might destroy humanity (now available for $20/month or pay-as-you-go usage credits)?

Effort wise probably, but Slack is... not where everyone is... So it seems underwhelming, this is a win for non-devs I supposed, what would have made this more fascinating is if this was a follow up to Claude Design, which in my opinion could have been as big as Claude Code, or even bigger, but it has its own token usage that burned so quickly, not sure how much of general token usage it takes now though.

Or even Cowork, aim it at non-technical roles. Back and forth chat within a team to collaborate on documents, files, excel sheets, etc.

Although I suppose the problem with doing it for Cowork is this is a slack plugin, and that is not where most non-tech companies are. Teams is, at 320+ million active users vs. ~50 million.

Everyone hates Teams, but like or not that is where enterprise work happens, not slack. Anthropic would do well to make their Microsoft 365/Teams integration story better and go after enterprise before OpenAI does, or before Microsoft catches up (if they ever do) with Copilot.

Probably if we look apps used for work chat I would think slack represents a plurality (and maybe majority) of current Claude users. Teams is probably next (or maybe beats it in terms of raw usage) but I bet integration with slack is easier.

As someone who has Claude and Codex both bridged into a MOO along with other humans I can 100% believe this. It really is a different paradigm that you have to experience. Of course a MOO is already set up for social programming, so it will be interesting to see what platforms evolve (or find themselves coming round again) to facilitate this.

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