Claude Tag is a Trojan horse.  Not because Anthropic is doing anything evil. Because the incentives are obvious. Day one, this looks like a great feature: tag Claude in Slack, let it follow the thread, remember context, connect to tools, break down tasks, chase work, and act like a teammate. But that is exactly the problem. The moment your AI vendor becomes a shared coworker, it stops being just a model provider. It starts becoming the place where work is interpreted, remembered, routed, and eventually executed. That is not model lock-in. That is context lock-in. You are now renting your company back from them. Models can be swapped. Agents can be copied. But the memory of how your company actually works is much harder, maybe impossible, to move: the Slack scar tissue, the exception paths, the customer promises, the unfinished threads, the weird workflows, the implicit owners, the “we tried that in Q2 and it failed” knowledge. Once that lives inside one vendor’s agent layer, you are not renting intelligence anymore. You are renting your company’s operating memory. And the pricing model makes it even more dangerous. A human coworker has a salary. Claude has unbounded tokenized activity. The more work moves through it, the more the vendor captures not just IT spend, but labor spend. This is the enterprise bargain people will regret: Convenience now, and rapid decent into dependency. The right architecture is simple: rent the best intelligence from whoever is best this month. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open source, whatever. But own the context layer. Your company memory should be inspectable, permissioned, portable, and model-neutral. It should not be buried inside the same vendor that sells you the intelligence and the workflow surface. Claude Tag is useful. That is why it is dangerous. Rent the intelligence, but own the context. Or, regret later.

The Democratic party that you and I both loved no longer exists It is being co-opted by Marxists who call themselves Socialists because it sounds better But also by Islamists who are hostile to liberalism We are electing people who openly hate America We have insecure elections, open borders, an extremely complex network of NGOs that launders money (oftentimes state funds) to feed this machine Many in politics and the media are either unaware of what's happening or too cowardly to stand up A full generation of "educated" kids who were indoctrinated to believe that all of this is good Etc etc

Other than the Iran war (which Israel talked us into joining and which we then LOST), what wars did Israel fight on our side on? Did Israel fight in Afghanistan? In Iraq? Did they provide military aid to Ukraine, or did they withhold it to curry favor with Putin?

@ScruffyCon Elon didn't create wealth. His workers did. Elon is not some magical fairy that pulls wealth out of his ass. He got lucky, got people who worked for him building rockets and they work hard to build rockets for his company but he didn't build the wealth by himself.

Don’t let your life 'narrow'. I’ve been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years. The thing I watch happen to people — more than any injury or surgery — is what I call the narrowing. Most of my patients have no idea it’s happening. They think it’s just aging. It’s not...