alt Hacker NewsProblem is, that just having a Claude subscription doesn't make you productive. Most of those talks happen in a "tech'ish" environments. Not every business is about coding.
Real life example: A client came to me asking how to compare orders against order confirmation from the vendor. They come as PDF files. Which made me wonder: Wait, you don't have any kind of API or at least structured data that the vendor gives you?
Nope.
And here you are. I am not talking about a niche business. I assume that's a broader problem. Tech can probably automate everything and this since 30 years. Still business lack of "proper" IT processes, because at the end every company is unique and requires particular measures to be "fully" onboarded to IT based improvements like that.
Thing is, unless the order confirmations number high in the thousands, most businesses could just hire an old lady with secretary experience to crunch through that work manually for a fraction of what it would cost them to get the whole system automated.
I've seen this play out with time sheets. Every day factory floor workers write up every job they do on time sheets, paper and pencil, but management wants excel spreadsheets with pretty plots. Solution? One old typist who can type up all the time sheets every day. No OCR trouble, no expensive developer time, if she encounters illegible numbers she just cross references against the job fliers to figure it out instead of throwing errors the first time a 0 looks like a 6.