“To kick things off, my team and I set up a basic #server and a few other technical nuances.

[peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange]

“To kick things off, my team and I set up a basic #server and a few other technical nuances. Then we asked Claude to code up a tool to replace our leave and #HR platform. Four hours later we had a system that rivalled many of #EmploymentHero’s features on the open market. We were suspicious. Did it even work? After guinea pigging Claude’s first draft with a few colleagues and ironing out several bugs, it worked flawlessly. Saving? $700 a month.

“Yesterday’s software darlings might still drag a few tired rabbits out of the hat to save themselves, but I doubt it.”

The excitement was building – what could we target next? Our expensive e-Commerce analytics tool #ProfitPeak ($2500 per month) quickly bit the digital dust. Syncing data between Meta, Google and Shopify was a little challenging, but nothing Claude couldn’t handle in a couple of days.

Our horizons started to expand. How about Confluence, and Jira – #Atlassian’s Golden Goose. This took a week to get right, back and forth with #Claude #debugging issues. Outside a few minor quarrels, Claude powered on and built us 80 per cent of what we needed out of the Atlassian suite.”

All those costly (most in USD) bits of service software, important to run a company, being eaten alive by AI retooling

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