My company is looking to purchase new laptops for a small number of employees but it’s been hard finding a supplier who will give us the time of day. Working directly with Dell has been a pain and Data3 has “been working on a quote” for the past 4 weeks. I only need like 15 computers a year and I’m having a difficult time finding someone to supply and support them. Any recommendations?
I just enabled the experimental Artifacts feature, but I can't really find much online for it. Anyone have some good use cases for how you're building with them?
We have a custom CRM and use Gmail. Right now we have a simple Gmail extension that users can click to sync individual email with a contact record in the database. This works, but I want to look at automating data capture.
My main question is on the permissions and security side. Do I make it automatic and sync all communications with customers? What if there’s a private conversation that not everyone should be privy to on the team (like a financial or legal related matter). How should I think about handling security in the CRM to capture the info needed without overexposing anything?
I work for a company where we don’t have a traditional PM or PO function. Those roles are mine and I’m falling behind on some fundamentals and I’m considering bringing someone onboard to help me, but I don’t think I have room or budget for a full time person. I’ve never really looked into part time or fractional PM roles so I’m just really ignorant on what others are doing here.
Here’s a brain dump of things I’m falling behind on:
- getting release notes published
- user and stakeholder updates
- roadmap editing and prioritization
- user feedback management
- UAT planning and implementation
- sending comms to users about what’s coming and what to look forward to (including light creative)
- knowledge base updating
I’m sure there are others that I’m missing. My instinct tells me that what I need is someone junior or nearly career. Maybe I’m overthinking it and it could be a full time role, but due to budget I need to consider an offshore person. But I haven’t hired a product person before so not entirely sure what this might look like for me.
Would love to hear some opinions on part time product specialists. Thanks
Thought I would share how I used Cowork to find money. I have a lot of reimbursable expenses for work. Today I downloaded all of my bank statements, copies of all my expense claims and asked Claude to reconcile them and look for any issues.
It found a handful of expenses where I mistyped the amounts from the receipts which added up over the past few months. The big one though was a charge where I input the wrong currency. The difference resulted in an $768 that I didn't get reimbursed for back in March. Total reclaimed amount was $922.
Just a cool use case that I'm going to start doing on a more regular basis.
Fun fact: This year Claude has earned me almost $6,000. In addition to this post's findings, I also used Claude to resolve a $5000 settlement with an Amazon for a delivery driver damage claim.
I work in a large franchise organization with thousands of users/devices and hundreds of locations. There is no centralized device management or IT function that covers the entire org footprint. Franchises have their own local MSP. We handle auth into Google Workspace but have been pretty relaxed on what types of apps and permission grants for various apps.
All users have access to Google Gemini, but I know users are giving access to other tools like ChatGPT, Claude, etc. Offices have unique needs for some systems so I'm hesitating on blocking everything outright. Some users may have used Google to auth into an account and if I just block access then they'll lose access and may not be able to disabled billing on those services.
But we need to do something here with the unrestricted access to all apps without overburdening our IT support.
How would you go about rolling out a policy and communicating these changes?
Just curious how others are managing the org-level instructions that override all user instructions. Mine are below, but I'm wondering if this is too much and if there's a better way to do this.
>You are an internal assistant for the corporate team at [COMPANY]. Use these names exactly: [LIST OF BRAND NAMES THAT PEOPLE FREQUENTLY GET WRONG]
For our software, use [APPLICATION NAME DOs]. Do not call the whole system [APPLICATION NAME DON'Ts]
Use these terms: [INDUSTRY TERMS]. Avoid: [VARIATIONS OF THOSE TERMS]
When describing the company, you may say that [BRIEF COMPANY DESCRIPTION]. Keep this description short and in your own words; do not reproduce long brand stories verbatim.
Reflect our purpose and brand at a high level: [PURPOSE], our mission is [MISSION] Use this to guide word choices and examples, but do not add marketing copy unless the user explicitly asks for it.
Tone, formatting style, and answer structure may be set by individual user instructions, provided they don’t conflict with these org‑level rules.
Do not output or invent PII about real people. If a user provides PII (i.e. names, emails, phone numbers, addresses, account numbers, IDs), avoid repeating it unnecessarily and encourage redaction or safer handling where appropriate.
Disclaimer: I used AI to help me write this up. The thoughts and the build are mine, it just helped me flesh out the details.
One of my favorite things about Dia is the Daily Briefing. When the pricing posts started showing up the other day it freaked me out a bit that this might end up behind a $100/mo tier. Even at $20 though, it was missing most of the tools I actually live in, so I'd been hitting the ceiling on it anyway.
So I rebuilt it as a scheduled task in Claude Cowork. Runs every weekday at 7am, generates a self contained HTML file, and drops it in my local vault. Same idea as Dia's, just with my own sources and a few sections Dia structurally can't do.
Sources
Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Chat, Slack, Jira, GitHub, Intercom, and Circleback for meeting notes and action items. A few of those have no Dia connector at all today, which was most of the reason for doing this.
I also keep a plain markdown "personal OS" locally. A TASKS.md that syncs from email, Slack, Google Tasks and Circleback meetings, and a DELEGATED.md for things I've handed to other people and want to chase. Those two files are the interesting part, because they let the brief know things no browser plugin can know.
The sections
Dia's five blocks, mostly kept as is:
Then three I added, and these are the ones I'd actually miss now:
DELEGATED.md. First time I ran it, it told me every chase date on that list had passed and three of four items were never actually handed over. That was uncomfortable and correct.The masthead
It builds its own title each day, so Friday's file says "The Friday Brief" the same way Dia's does. Small thing, but it's the bit that makes it feel like a paper rather than a dashboard.
The hero image
This is my favorite part. Dia crops a public domain painting behind the title. Mine generates a fresh one every morning through the Higgsfield MCP, prompted from that day's actual content.
It's always a loose impressionist oil painting with a muted palette and the prompt hard bans any text so you never get garbled lettering in the artwork.
It also credits itself honestly, something like "Generated for this brief, 20 Aug 2026", rather than inventing a painter and a year (though that could be interesting).
Brand
Whole thing runs on my actual company palette. Off white paper, near black ink, tan for line work, and our red reserved strictly for the call to action starbursts. Serif for the masthead, system sans for everything else. Feels like an internal publication instead of a generic AI output, which matters more than I expected it to.
The prompt buttons, which are the real trick
Dia's "Let's do it" and "Prep me" buttons open a new chat pre-loaded with a prompt.
https://claude.ai/new?q=<url-encoded prompt>
So every meeting in the day rail has a Prep me button, and the push forward block has a Let's do it. Each one opens a fresh Claude chat already holding a full work order. The important bit I got wrong on the first pass: the prompt has to name real identifiers. Jira ticket keys, repo and PR numbers, file names, Slack channel names, meeting names. Otherwise the new chat has to guess where to look. Now every one of them carries a "Where to look:" paragraph listing exactly that, and the fresh chat goes and reads the source itself through the connected tools.
Ticking things off actually does something
Every item has a checkbox, and it means different things per section. Done in to-dos, no longer relevant in the delegated and stale sections, already knew this in updates. There's also a collapsible feedback box under each section.
Then one Copy for Claude button at the bottom bundles everything I ticked plus my notes into structured markdown, grouped by what the tick meant and which file needs the edit:
## Ticked
### No longer relevant · `DELEGATED.md`
- Every chase date on your delegated list has passed — `D1-D4`
## Notes
### Gone quiet
> Signed that one yesterday, drop it.
Paste that into a chat and it updates the source files and the relevant tickets. Closes the loop, which is the one thing Dia's version can't do either.
It's just there when I log in
The other thing I wanted to copy from Dia was not having to go get it. Dia's briefing is right there when you open the browser, and that's most of why I actually read it.
So the brief is a startup tab. The scheduled task finishes before I start my day, my machine opens it with everything else, and it's on screen before I've decided what to work on. That last part matters more than any single section. A brief you have to remember to open is a brief you read twice a week.
I also get a push notification when the run finishes, naming the file and the sharpest thing in it, so on the mornings I'm on my phone first I still get the headline.
How it's organized
The lesson here was to keep the design out of the daily prompt. If the scheduled task has to re-derive 400 lines of CSS every morning it's slow, expensive, and drifts. So the design lives in the local vault as a small package and the task just calls it:
Routines/daily-brief/
├── SPEC.md # what the run does. edit this, not the task prompt
├── content.schema.md # the contract for the daily content
├── build.py # renders content.json -> the HTML file
├── shell.html # the page. all the CSS lives here
├── fraunces-600.b64 # embedded font, never read into context
├── hero-fallback.b64 # blurred wash so a failed image isn't a hole
└── examples/ # a known good content.json to diff against
SPEC.md has a switch table at the top, so I can flip the hero from the generated painting to a free hand drawn SVG, or change how many items each section allows, without touching the scheduled task at all. The task prompt itself is about eight lines and mostly says "read SPEC.md and follow it".
Each morning it writes content.json, runs build.py, screenshots the result to check nothing broke, then saves a new dated file. Never overwrites yesterday, so I've got an archive.
Where I'd take it next
Two directions, and I haven't done either yet.
The obvious one is getting it off my own machine. The compute already runs in Anthropic's cloud, but the files live in my local vault, so the run needs my laptop awake and the desktop app open at 7am. Fine most weekdays, useless when I'm traveling. Moving the state somewhere cloud native fixes that, and I'm being deliberately slow about it because those two markdown files have real internal detail in them and I'd rather solve that properly than quickly.
The version I actually want is to lift the whole thing onto my own Hermes setup, run it on a plain cron job, and have it push to me wherever I am. Telegram, most likely. At that point it stops being a browser feature I recreated and starts being a service I own, which is the fun version. Not there yet.
Honest downsides
It takes a while and burns a shit load of tokens to generate instead of being instantly there. It depends on my machine being awake, per the above. The image costs a few credits a day. And it was a solid evening of iteration, not a five minute setup. Dia's version is more polished out of the box, this one just knows more about my actual job.
I'll share the spec and the build script in comments below if anyone wants to try it.
I've been using Dia as my personal workspace for a while now, but decided to give it a go when Profiles dropped a couple of weeks ago. I just planned on trying it for a couple of days expecting to go back to Arc, but I haven't touched Arc since.
I've learned that waiting for super-niche features like peak or a mobile companion app just aren't worth waiting for. The other features make up for it. I can even see a future with complete feature set that I'd be willing to pay a subscription for. After all, dev salaries and AI opex has a cost.
Is Dia perfect? Nope.
Is it lacking in some areas? Yep.
Does it have all the same features as Arc? Nope.
Will it ever? Probably not.
Is it better than Arc? It's similar but different, so nope?
I've been on r/ArcBrowser for over a year and I'm sick of seeing the the same tired posts complaining about TBC, lack of feature parity in Dia, Arc-alternatives, etc. This sub is a broken record and echo chamber. It reminds me of when Windows 11 dropped and all the reddit tech edge lords moaned for what seemed like years before finally upgrading.
Misery finds company so I'm moving on from this sub.
^(Still using Arc Mobile though 🤫)
It looked so cool but I couldn’t get in a position to safely take a pic while driving.
Disclosure: I used Claude to help design and run this experiment, and I used it to help write this post. The methodology, numbers, and verdict below are mine; I'm not pretending a human did all the typing.
Context: I maintain a large-ish internal Angular monorepo at work (enterprise SaaS, multiple apps, ~50 packages). For a while now I've been using a custom Claude Code agent review process on new PRs kicked off by a Github Action. I was having a challenge updating my PR review command and agents each time we made substantial changes so I wanted to check out some other more generic review skill/plugin options that I wanted actual data instead of vibes before picking one.
Setup: I took one real, already-merged PR — a big one, ~100 files / ~19k lines, a non-trivial feature plus tooling changes — and opened it five separate times, each with a different review process configured, but everything else identical:
| # | Review process | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Incumbent in-house agentic review + old CLAUDE.md file | Control |
| 2 | Same incumbent review + new/rewritten CLAUDE.md file | Isolates just the instructions-file variable |
| 3 | Matt Pocock's mattpocock-skills code-review skill | Using new CLAUDE.md |
| 4 | Anthropic's claude-plugins-official code-review command | Using new CLAUDE.md |
| 5 | Anthropic's claude-plugins-official pr-review-toolkit (agentic) | Using new CLAUDE.md |
All five ran on the same model via the same GitHub Action. I deliberately kept the assessment blind — I judged only the posted review comments, not the underlying diff — to avoid hindsight bias creeping into which findings I rated as "good."
Telemetry (pulled from the Action logs, since none of this is surfaced anywhere else):
| # | Review process | Agent time | Turns | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Control | 4m10s | 31 | $1.20 |
| 2 | New CLAUDE.md | 4m01s | 28 | $1.10 |
| 3 | mattpopcock/code-review | 7m58s | 53 | $3.21 |
| 4 | anthropic/code-review | 4m24s | 28 | $1.61 |
| 5 | anthropic/pr-review-toolkit | 3m50s | 39 | $1.56 |
Total spend for the whole analysis: $8.68. (Caveat: this is list API pricing — if your reviews run through a subscription seat rather than metered billing, treat these as relative.)
Verdict:
🏆 Winner: #5, Anthropic's pr-review-toolkit. Broadest recall (11 findings + 6 call-outs of things done well), and it was the only one of the five to flag an authorization concern on a destructive operation, plus a state-management deadlock in a shared service that the other four all missed (one of them even called that same code "a good fix"). Best recall-per-dollar of the group — fastest run, mid cost — and it's Anthropic-maintained, which matters to me for a shared team pipeline.
🥈 Runner-up: #4, Anthropic's official code-review skill. Highest precision, almost no filler — but narrowest coverage (8 findings vs. 11). I think this one is really designed to be run pre-commit and that's how I'll be using it moving forward.
Matt Pocock's skill is the one that didn't match its reputation for me. It actually surfaced the most unique high-value findings of the five — three things nobody else caught — via a clever two-axis review structure (grading standards-compliance separately from "does this match the actual intent," with buckets like missing/partial, scope creep, implemented-but-wrong). That part is good design, and I'd steal the idea in a heartbeat. But it cost 2.1x the winner and took 2x as long, and padded its results with a couple of generic "textbook smell" findings that read as noise rather than signal. Given the cost/time tax and the noise, I can't justify it as the default over the pr-review-toolkit.
Secondary finding I wasn't expecting to care about: my previous review process (#1) vs the same review process with a new/updated CLAUDE.md file (#2) is a clean A/B on just the instructions file (same review process, same harness). New instructions file won outright — cheaper, faster, better severity triage, and it caught a real user-facing bug that the old-instructions run buried under "Minor / Stylistic." That alone would've been worth doing regardless of which review tool we picked.
Caveats / things I haven't verified yet:
Curious if others have run something similar — especially whether the "one big monolithic comment, zero inline comments" behavior is universal or something specific to how I had these wired up.
Owner of a new-to-me 2023 XC90. Since it was used I didn’t get the full tech walk through I normally get at a dealership.
In the image is th top portion supposed to show the 360 cam too? I note it works correctly when I select the 360 button so just want to make sure I’m not missing something.
I’m looking to remodel a kitchen and master bathroom and closet. This involves moving a wall, reconfiguring shapes or a room, adding some new walls, etc.
Should I be working with an interior designer or an architect?
Edit: thanks all. I’ll start with a local design build firm.
I want to hire a contractor to renovate my kitchen and master bathroom and closet. I expect a project like this to run $80-100k.
I plan on moving a wall and raising a window, but I’m not sure about designs or anything yet.
How do I make sure I get a comparable bid from each GC I speak with? Do I need to have plans drawn before speaking with anyone?
Hey everyone, I could use a quick sanity check on IdP strategy.
I'm looking at a major project to consolidate a fragmented Keycloak setup into a single, simplified solution (ideally managed like Auth0 or similar). It handles core app auth as well as provisioning internal users to different Google Workspace tenants based on where they come from and external users to our customer/supplier portals. It's going to require a fair amount of backend rework regarding roles and permissions.
Since identity architecture isn't my primary background, I'm trying to decide if I should scope and implement a IdP switch internally, or if this is the kind of project where you save time and pain by bringing in a specialized consultant for an initial analysis.
If you've migrated away from a legacy or self-managed identity mess, what's something you wish you knew before you started?
Any other advice or recommendations are welcome. Please don't pitch me on specific products right now.
For reasons I won't get into, my company has multiple Google Workspace tenants for our different company regions.
I get a lot of Chat messages from people on my team who appear as "External" just because they're in one of the other tenants. Is there a way to notify them when I'm out of office like you can with Gmail?
Hey all, looking for a sanity check on a deal our Google partner is pushing. We have ~2,000 Google Workspace Enterprise Standard seats across three tenants.
Our Google Workspace renewal isn't until December. Our Google partner is pushing an early renewal before June 30 (end of Australian financial year) tied to a Gemini Enterprise bundle. They say if I convert 25% of seats to Gemini Enterprise licenses, and they'll give me a deeper discount on my base Workspace seats that actually brings my total annual cost slightly lower than what I'm paying today, despite a 20% RRP increase Google implemented when they rolled Gemini into the base product.
On paper it looks like this for our largest tenant (1,065 seats):
So the bundle is genuinely cheaper than a straight renewal, but it has to be at current seat count. No right-sizing.
I'm pretty confident I can cut 10-15% of my seats across my two larger tenants through inactive cleanup. I freed up ~150 seats before our last renewal doing the same kind of work.
What they haven't given me is a comparison that answers the actual question. If I right-sized first and then renewed in December at lower seat counts, what would that look like versus committing now at current counts?
Hard deadline is June 26 for this pricing. They've been clear this is tied to their financial year end and the pricing goes away after that.
What I'm trying to figure out
Appreciate any experience from users or partners here. Not anti the deal, just want to make sure I'm evaluating it honestly before I commit.
Thanks!
Last night I took my fourth dose during week one of my first tesa cycle. Been on Reta already for about 6 months and have now added 2mg daily tesa.
This week I’ve been having the wildest almost lucid dreams. Not necessarily nightmares, but definitely not comfortable and my sleep has been suffering.
I’ve read a handful of reports from users experiencing similar effects, but I’m curious if anyone knows the science behind it and if there’s a solution? Should I lower the dose to 1mg for a week, just take it in the morning, or just tough it out for a couple of weeks?
I work for a company with a proprietary take-off, estimating and purchasing software. I’m looking to hire an AI engineer to help me architect some new features to improve UX, speed up processes, and get better data.
Are there any AI features that you like if your current tools? Anything you wish they could do that they cannot currently?