Corporate is finally letting us break free of co-pilot and actually use the AI tools we like.
I consider myself and the firm (large US corporate) late adopters for a Fortune 500 firm, but relatively early adopters for the industry.
I was fed up on a call Friday with the lack of progress and general pussyfooting around by a group of 15 directors, so I opened my big mouth and said "I'll put something together and show you all how to use it next Friday". Well... it didn't take long to get myself moderately more competent than my colleagues and now I've open pandoras box.
Used it on Friday to create a ppt presentation and yesterday to create a roll out plan with use cases and prompt guides to take the directors through on Friday. Very impressed. If someone showed me the outputs I would believe them if they said it took half a day... Took me 10 minutes...
I feel like most work usage up to now has been small and somewhat gimmicky, but Claude seems to be a game changer. I can give it actual tasks. If it continues to perform, I can see hiring plans slowing considerably, and role replacements being part covered by AI.