Lightbody

They are separate. That’s how Reclaim works :) Happy to share more here but not trying to pitch my product since it’s off topic.

My point is: context and privacy is HARD in multi-player modes.

It's interesting to see the market movements from the big players.

This announcement is all about Claude extending its reach beyond single-player workflows and into multi-player workflows.

On the flip side, Slack just announced MCP support for the Slackbot AI chat capability embedded within Slack. It is, for now, exclusively single-player.

Single-player is the "safe place" (relatively speaking). The context, permissions, and standards (MCP/MCP UI apps) all work reasonably well for it, but get super complex or break down entirely when thrown into a multi-player shared context. I suspect Slack is doing what they are doing with an eye towards multi-player, but it's hard to say how that will manifest.

For a real life example of this challenge: I work in scheduling (for Reclaim.ai) and you can ask our chat to find time to meet with a coworker and we go find time and help explain why certain times won't work. For example, it might say: "I couldn't do 11am tomorrow because you've got a job interview scheduled on your personal calendar". This is safe and fine to do in a private context.

But... imagine if one were to ask our service (or Claude) to find time with someone and it replied to the thread for everyone to see: "The soonest I could find is 12pm tomorrow. Reggie is available at 11am, but Lightbody has a job interview so it won't work". WHOOPS.

I think the other comments in this thread have the right idea of it: for this to really work safely, the permissions model needs to be nailed down, and it may mean that you end up with multiple identities of "Claude Tag" (or whatever agent you engage with in a public forum), and the context it gets is only the context that particular identity is entitled to, just like any other employee. But then that gets tedious because now I've got even MORE "people" to keep track of and know who to engage with, which is half the problem getting work done in large enterprises.

Will be interesting to see how this evolves. I'll have my popcorn out :)

You can turn on a feature that will not auto-add invites to your calendar if sent from "unknown senders". The downside (significant IMO) is that "unknown senders" is based on Google Address Book + Other Contacts (aka people you email with). So if you're texting with someone, using a Calendly-style link, or pretty much any other non-email method of communication to schedule the meeting, it can easily be lost. It will still end up in your inbox, but you will have to accept the invite there for it to appear anywhere in Google Calendar.

Context: I'm the cofounder of Reclaim.ai.

It's not for no reason that one state had more registered voters than the actual number of eligible voters in that state.

https://www.votebeat.org/michigan/2024/10/24/michigan-regist...

Firstly, I want to offer my sincere apologies for how we mishandled this. You are absolutely right: we should have done a better job communicating how this change was rolling out.

For background (and for anyone else reading): what is being referenced here is that Reclaim is, by definition, a product that can straddle two or more Google or Microsoft accounts. It can do things like block out your work calendar when your personal calendar gets busy.

The issue is: some companies have come to us and told us they will no longer approve of Reclaim's access to their calendars unless we enforce certain restrictions, such as only allowing authentication to an account that contains their calendar data (ex: Reclaim!) via their SSO provider, and no other authentication is allowed.

It isn't quite accurate that they have "taken over" your account. In fact: if you disconnect their corporate Google/Microsoft account from your Reclaim account, you are free to use it how you want. For example, their regular calendar sharing allows you to connect to your work account via your personal Google calendar, you could do that and not avoid any disruption in service. But most companies don't permit more than "free/busy" level of sharing, which isn't quite enough for this workaround.

If you need help disconnecting your company's account from your Reclaim account, we can walk you through how to do that.

We are exploring more sophisticated (but much more expensive) solutions, such as allowing you to authenticate with your non-company credential but not show you any information that is associated with your company calendar (ex: data masked). But it's unclear if your employer (and similar) would accept this. It's also still a degraded experience for the end-user, so it's tough to say if this is ultimately better or worse than the current situation.

That all said: I am sorry we didn't roll out this change to you. I hope you will give us the benefit of the doubt and consider working with us on ways to meet your employer's requirements as well as yours. You are welcome to email me directly at patrick@reclaim.ai if you'd like to discuss this further.

Command-E lives on: https://www.dash.ai

We definitely considered it and we talked openly with the Dropbox team as well. I feel very good about the future of Reclaim.

I appreciate the candor, and the support for Reclaim.

Part of why we went with Dropbox was strong alignment for what the future of work can look like. Also because unlike many tech acquisitions, we were able to keep the entire team and product intact while continuing to invest in and pursue the long term vision we've had for Reclaim.

I hope you'll give us a chance to change your perspective in the coming years :)

cofounder here -- happy to answer any questions :)

Cofounder of Reclaim. AMA ;)

Fun fact, if you didn't know: he also runs a political news / polling site available at https://www.electoral-vote.com.

As a founder of an increasingly complex SaaS service (https://reclaim.ai) I love the mission. I'll be checking it out. Good luck!

If you need a visual presentation of this, enjoy this classic scene from Malcolm in the Middle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

NRQL (New Relic Query Language) supports SELECT … FROM as well as FROM … SELECT.

I still just live with SELECT … FROM. Too many decades of experience have locked in this habit.

I agree that we should all avoid HP. Just the worst.

But the Brotherly love might also seem misplaced, at least according to one HN thread from last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

That said, I have a Brother laser printer + fancy scanner that can upload direct to Google Drive and I’m very happy with it. And from my research other brand toner seems to be allowed on mine (L8895CDW).

So… shrug?

Can anyone please de-lingo this for me? Is Gemini parallel to Bard or parallel to PaLM 2 or… something else?

In our experience OpenAI’s APIs and overall model quality (3.5, 4, trained, etc) is just way better across the board to the equivalent APIs available in Google Cloud Vertex.

Is Gemini supposed to be a new option (beyond PaLM 2) in Vertex? I literally can’t make heads or tails on what “it” is in practical terms to me.

I have preorders in for the R1S, the Volvo EX90, and the Kia EV9. I passed once already on buying the R1S when they had one in town available for immediate purchase, simply because they refuse to adopt CarPlay.

This incident does NOT give me confidence that Rivian is likely to offer a better alternative to CarPlay, despite their statements otherwise.

I suspect the EX90 will be what I land on eventually.

I don't think this sounds quite like my startup, but perhaps it was Reclaim.ai? Either way, would love for you to check it out :)

They were having a major outage at the same time. See their status page.

But yes, a CAPTCHA for an API is pretty silly. We (reclaim.ai) have seen this before. In June 2020 it was happening every day around midnight UTC for two weeks straight. We worked around it by changing our outbound egress IP! It didn’t work today though… the problem resolved today when the outage ended.

Founder of reclaim.ai, can confirm major issues going on.

Nice work!

Do you have plans to bring the same low friction deployment to mobile?

Totally. But they aren't even close to the level of service I get on my other car (Honda).

They do! It's quite impressive how hard they work at it.

See my car wash story I just shared in another comment.

Yes. They would meet you at your home or work and work on it there or leave you with a nice loaner if they needed to take it.

I haven't been offered a Tesla loaner in years when I take it into service. I don't even ask anymore.

They also don't wash your car. After spending $4k on service and waiting for 30 minutes for them to "open", I was told to go out into the side parking lot to find my car (using the location feature in the app), which led me to the car being parked underneath a tree, collecting sap. I also then had to come back in because they still had my key.

It's a shit show.

I'm one of the Tesla early adopters: 2013 Model S P85 and still driving it.

These days, I go out of my way to tell people: DO NOT BUY TESLA.

In the early days, service was wonderful. Over the years it steadily eroded. Now it's the worst customer experience I am forced to go through. Far worse than Comcast, various airlines, cell providers, county permits, etc.

The only reason I still have this car is my desire to a) not be wasteful and b) find a non-Tesla 3 row electric SUV.

This story is outrageous, but not at all surprising. The rudeness and disorganized nature of Telsa is deep in the company DNA. I have experienced it many times in recent years.

Most recently, I arrived to pick up my car (after $4k of service!) at 8am, when their website said they opened. About 20 employees were there, playing corn hole and talking in a group. A dozen people walked by me with a cockeyed look and when I finally asked if I could be helped, they said: "oh we don't open until 8:30am, we hold daily team meetings at 8am now". I told them their website said otherwise and they should update it... I got a literal shrug.

I just checked: the website still says they open at 8am. So even my polite attempt at helping them fix their website error went ignored.

I can't even with this company.

Just curious -- have you personally confirmed this?

Not trying to cast doubt... just noting that I have exactly the same feelings (hopes?) but I have yet to personally confirm it, in large part because it's not yet fully GA so we haven't jumped in with our production workloads.

I'm the cofounder so obviously biased, but come check out https://reclaim.ai and let us know how it goes. We have a lot of folks in your situation happily using the service.

If you don't think anyone would be so dumb to connect AI to weapons... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyal_wingman

I "ping 1.1" as my go-to network availability test.

It checks to see if Cloudflare is responding, which 99.9% of the time is going to tell you if your internet is working :)

For now, it goes out to all nodes, though the pace/rollout is different. For our jobs cluster, it swaps them out pretty quickly. For our API cluster, it takes longer so that in-flight requests gracefully get handled by our load balancer before pulled out of the cluster rotation. So far that has worked well enough for us.