I think they have the best product right now

by Charles, Austin, TX, Monday, June 01, 2026, 22:10 (7 days ago) @ Mark

But they've got a HUGE problem in that they don't have a platform for it, and haven't really made any progress on that front since it became relatively obvious that it was a problem.

Companies are finding great value from letting their top talent use it, and figure out how to use it collaboratively. But, that level of autonomy doesn't really work all that well in companies who want to have much more control over governance and permissions, and the amount of workarounds necessary to collaborate in usual workflows with Claude are substantial.

Honestly, I'd put my money on Microsoft. Their sharepoint platform more or less runs the corporate world, and copilot natively integrates. Copilot doesn't have to be as good as Claude, it just has to be good enough. Put another way, I think it's more likely that Microsoft develops a good enough AI product than it is that Anthropic develops a good enough collaborative corporate work platform.

I had been surprised by Google's seeming uninterest in this side of things, but I think they're making their play as being the personal AI product of choice, and thus have been building out for much different use cases.

GPT, after serving a short stint as the Myspace of AI, I think actually has a superior product to Claude in Codex right now for many use cases. Claude is still generically better for "office" work and tone, but Codex feels smarter to me again. Consider Claude the polished manager who can be client-facing, but Codex is the autistic engineer who can get shit done.