alt Hacker NewsMan these big AI labs have such terrible UX and integration. Signing up for this waitlist should be something you can request from your Claude chat session. You already have all of my relevant information and I'm already signed in, why are you making me type in any information. It's bizarre we have companies claiming trillion dollar valuations but somehow nobody thought to do basic integration with the existing chat service? You have access to frontier coding agents that should make this trivial and somehow you're still expecting me to type in information I've already given you. What are the product people at Anthropic doing?
I tried asking Claude fron the android app if it could sign me up for the waitlist and it said that it couldn't. There's no technical reason this shouldn't be possible, it just shows a lack of care and attention to detail.
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If only someone had invented a way to easily make great websites automatically? Ah well, I guess that’s just a pipe dream.
I suspect such basic UX & integration misses is parallel to the general trend of customers somehow getting narrower services, a move away from supporting power users, and toward companies functioning more like fiefdoms where customers are subjects to be farmed.
Well laziness could explain it (Occam's nap?) but it's also possible they added a bit of friction to get a cleaner signal of intent, so they can see who the most motivated prospective users are.
Drives me nuts that it's such a manual process to link my ChatGPT/Codex machines individually to each other and my Dot can only seem to connect with the chats on one linked machine at a time (before even getting to control or how completely useless the cloud VPS for the Dot is).
I had a Pro 200 plan build my entire desktop environment from near scratch in C+Vulkan this last month and they can't even bother to have the bots let their Linux Electron app connect remotely to the same Electron app on Windows in the same way that already happens in reverse?