I Paid for Claude’s Gmail ‘Superpower’—and Anthropic’s Compute Crunch Made it Useless
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- General Experience with Claude’s New Features:
- Attempted to connect calendar and email for insights using Claude.
- Initial expectations of improved email insights and daily briefings.
- Outcome: Features did not perform well, leading to disappointment.
- Key Issues Identified:
- Anthropic, the creator of Claude, is facing compute constraints which affect feature rollout and performance.
- Performance Details:
- Claude’s coding abilities were below expectations in generating a briefing React artifact.
- Limited retrieval capabilities: only selected a few emails and meetings despite a large volume.
- Likely due to rate limiting on backend calls to save costs, not fully utilizing paid plans.
- Comparison to Competitors:
- OpenAI’s tools outperformed Claude, providing a better experience with more extensive capabilities.
- OpenAI’s model can seamlessly integrate a larger number of tools due to better compute resources.
- Thoughts on Compute Constraints:
- Importance of compute capabilities and capital in driving AI advancement.
- Consumers feel the impact of these constraints through limited features and poor experiences.
- Conclusions:
- Challenges not just about technical quality or token limits, but fundamentally about capital and GPU access.
- Highlights the need for ongoing discussion about how these constraints affect AI tool development and user experience.