context: working in tech consulting with non-tech industry partners. outside of coding scenarios, anthropic is just not quite the best choice for regular folks

context: working in tech consulting with non-tech industry partners. outside of coding scenarios, anthropic is just not quite the best choice for regular folks. depending on the cloud/office stack used by the company, the userbase is better poised to use the native ai offering than moving to anthropic and connecting everything with them. same goes for third party guys trying to tie it all together. not to discount them or their features, but beyond small companies or startups, we don't see the same levels of adoptions now nor maybe in the near future. those asking us to build genai solutions for them also do not choose anthropic first over the main model offered by their current CSP. anthropic made itself available across the board finally, but it was already too late for most projects planned out for the upcoming quarters. also, we don't use the absolute biggest model nor instantly migrate to the latest one. the insane price jumps do not help with the same. especially when we quote something that may no longer be true down the line. aside: good luck to the FDE folks hired by the frontier labs. i wonder if they would really get to handle large company-wide projects in practice.