r/consulting • • 3d ago

Anyone else notice a massive improvement in AI for strategy work since Opus 5.5 release?

Former consulting current Strategy / Ops in tech here

I‘ve been generally ahead of the curve in AI but even just in the last few weeks, I’ve seen an enormous step change in the speed and accuracy of AI generated analyses, presentations, and documents. Opus 5.5 combined with MCPs for Slack, internal search, querying, and Google Drive has been an insane development.

I can ask a complex question and get a sound presentation with analysis lined all in our internal format. Data requests are a total non issue - I can have an agent run every hour and fulfill anything I’m asked with a high degree of accuracy. It knows every initiative I work on and I can ask it any question about it. I know this has been the promise for a while but lately it’s just… worked, and fast.

I feel like I have the brain of my company and our partners in front of me and I can ask it anything. Has anyone else noticed a meaningful change in the very recent past?

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u/emt139 3d ago

At this point, I’m a meat wrapper for opus 5.5

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

Saw a tweet that said “I’m the API between Claude and my boss”

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u/emt139 3d ago

That me. 

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u/Visible_Ad_7299 2d ago

Hilarious and true for me

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u/LoverOfAir 18h ago

Official term is meat proxy

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u/jayzala 3d ago

Opus 5.5 is insane. I am getting REALLY worried I am depending on it too much and I will lose my craft. But it is just so good and is doing better and most importantly, faster job than I can ever do.

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u/vibe_assassin 3d ago

Opus 5.5 is probably smarter than me by a good distance

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u/quickblur 3d ago

That was definitely a humbling moment for me. I write press releases and articles for my company. I was working on one for a while and couldn't get it right so I dropped into AI "just to see how it compared"...it banged out something far more insightful and concise in seconds.

I'm definitely living on borrowed time.

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u/vibe_assassin 3d ago

You might be living on borrowed time in your current capacity. But what would you do if the things that currently take up your time only took up 20% of your time. That’s the question to embrace

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u/hughperman 2d ago

Probably be fired 80% quicker?

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u/jugojam 2d ago

I implemented an AI-enabled AP automation system earlier this year that took up 50% less time of the AP team than the previous process/system. In a team of 6, 3 pople got 100% of their time back, the other 3 are still employed. Asymmetric benefit realization

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u/Big_Joosh 3d ago

Trust me. Everyone can tell AI wrote it lmao

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

When you message someone a one sentence question on Slack and get back 4 perfectly formatted paragraphs with bolding and emojis, yes it’s obvious.

When you’re writing documentation, slides, papers, etc. I don’t think it’s obvious anymore if you’re specific enough about what you’re trying to show.

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u/Fun_Crab_6204 3d ago

No AI written text is very easy to spot once you’ve read a lot of it. If it’s actually 50% you and 50% AI, maybe not. But if it’s all AI and you just gave it talking talking points, everyone call tell

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

Ok yeah ultimately I agree with you that lazy AI writing is bad. It’s horrible when you can tell whoever “wrote” it doesn’t know what’s in it.

If I come in and say “I’m trying to make this point, how can I make it best” and build from there, I get a much better result. That’s what I meant about being specific enough about what you’re trying to show.

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u/Fun_Crab_6204 3d ago

Yeah I mean if it’s giving you tips and then you’re refining then I’m sure it helps. But any ai writing now leaves traces that can be detected by tools like Pangram.

I think overtime it’s going to get more taboo to present AI writing as your own.

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u/LoverOfAir 18h ago

No, the market will win again. Plus there are multiple ways to make it sound like your own or company voice based on older material.

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u/tanbirj ex MBB/ ex Big 4 2d ago

There’s a lot of AI slop, and it’s starting to impact the way we write and speak. It’s becoming more and more common to hear colleagues say classic AI phrases in meetings (“that distinction matters”, “the uncomfortable truth” etc)

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u/Fournier_Gang 2d ago

People have been saying this kind of shit for a long time before AI though. Where do you think it got it from?

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u/tanbirj ex MBB/ ex Big 4 2d ago

True, but there’s a particularly annoying structure that people are now using more frequently. I’m just glad you can’t ‘speak’ and em dash

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u/Fournier_Gang 2d ago

The use of a series of short sentences / fragments of sentences is particularly annoying to me. It used to be an interesting change of pace in prose, but now that AI-generated text is littered with this, it seems so trite.

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u/_this-is-she_ 2d ago

Probably? The entire field of Mathematics has been surpassed by a model not too far ahead of Opus 5.5

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u/vibe_assassin 2d ago

Computers have been better than people at certain things for a long time. The general intelligence of Opus 5.5 is a different thing

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u/_this-is-she_ 2d ago

I disagree. Opus has more access to the vast compendium of human knowledge than you do, and can now synthesize better. It is smarter for the work you do, which tends to be relatively narrow and well bounded. You may beat it at having a larger context window and ability to refine your thoughts unprompted, but who knows how long that will last?

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u/vibe_assassin 2d ago

I’m agreeing with you. I just worded it poorly

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u/HumblePerformance279 3d ago

Used to think these tools were all talk but its actually doing the work now, not just writing the summary after you do it yourself

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u/Ijusti 3d ago

I'm really having trouble understanding why people are happy with the progress. As an undergrad, all I'm wishing for is for the tools to start improving at a slower rate so I actually have a chance to have a job when I'm out of college - and most importantly, have a job for the foreseeable future after this.

If AI actually gets better than us in most tasks, I feel like it is copium to continue saying "this is just another tool like the calculator". It is fundamentally different.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

I say this all apathetically.  It is happening. 

I believe the human race will advance. I believe markets will continue to rip as productivity increases. I also believe white collar jobs will get crushed.

It’s too hard at this point to think about how this all together makes me feel.

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u/Ijusti 3d ago

I don't think this is even pushed far enough.

If AI is actually as good or better than us, but can work 24/7, perfect recall, it's not just white collar jobs getting crushed, it's everything.

A perfect workforce will bang out advancements in robotics in record time, and then no more blue collar jobs either.

In my opinion, we're moving way too quickly towards the unknown. I hope I'll get to have some years of having meaningful work

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u/redddc25 3d ago

I cannot convince myself to buy a house and take on a 20 year mortgage anymore. I don't think my job will exist in 5 years time. I am not even sure about starting a family now. I need to rethink what I've been working towards for the last two decades because the last 4 years have changed the world tremendously.

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u/compoundedinterest12 2d ago

Don't not get the house just bc of AI. If the white collar industry is wiped out, the world order would disintegrate. History tells us what the US gov will do in a situation like that, which is to pump the market chock full of liquidity. In this case, I think it would be in the form of UBI.

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u/redddc25 1d ago

I don't know man, I'm not waiting for the collapse of white collar jobs. I know downsizing is already happening across consulting and the industry. It's only going to get more severe here on out. Maybe I can survive 3-4 more rounds of layoffs, switch companies, etc. But there will always be a risk that my partner and I both lose jobs and end up having to move back home or something.

It's not as stable as it was for the last 20-30 years.

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u/pushiper 2d ago

Chill man. Houses continued to be needed and families continued to grow after each single technology shift

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u/Fournier_Gang 2d ago

It's not about whether or not they need the house, it's whether or not they can afford one after AI takes their job.

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u/Dry_Pea3547 2d ago

The cat is out of the bag now there's no unwinding this and there's no slowing down until they have squeezed every ounce of diminishing returns out.

We will not reach AGI with the this technology but the pace of capability the last 3 years has been staggering, it's hard to believe opus 8 won't be insanely good.

We'll reach a point where the limit is humans limited capability to the write the prompt well enough rather than the model capability.

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u/Civil-Plate1206 1d ago

Why do you say AGI hasn’t been reached?

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u/Dry_Pea3547 1d ago

The output of frontier models is very good but it lacks taste and judgement. The illusion of judgement has gotten better but it's not going to replace a smart human in that regard.

In other words the analysis can be thorough and complete and correct but the judgement of which parts are important vs just noise is still really bad.

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u/rdelamora1 3d ago

Opus 5 was taken away at work because of "cost" 

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u/superexcited 3d ago

That’s why it’s now 5.5. It’s much cheaper.

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u/Time-Wheel6123 3d ago

What about fable?

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u/byebybuy 3d ago

Fable's amazing at complex tasks that require deep thought, but it's slower and wayyyy more expensive. Opus 5.5 is actually cheaper than 4.8.

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u/billyblobsabillion 2d ago

I’ve been impressed with Fable’s ability to plan tasks but not to execute them

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u/cgknight1 2d ago

Just use it as an advisor to opus.

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u/Wild_Vermicelli8276 2d ago

How does this work?

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u/cgknight1 2d ago

Depending on what you are doing - build it into your code or if you are one shotting, just ask it to use fable as an advisor for the task.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

It’s prob what the quant firms are using and prob what’s cracking all these crazy centuries old math problems for the first time but honestly unless I’m doing something that requires a novel’s worth of input, Opus 5.5 gets the job done right and fast.

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u/Lasershot-117 As per my last email 3d ago

Seasoned guy here (I’ve seen before and after GenAI and work mainly in AI consulting so I’m well in sync with latest tech advancements when they come out).

Haven’t much used Opus 5.5 for storylining and general thinking (I tend to use GPT 6.x Sol for that because that’s what my company gives me).

However, I’ve started using Opus 5.5 through Copilot on specific already built slides in a slidepack, mainly for simplification, beautification, reformatting and Exec Summaries and holy shit I’m blown away by what it does. It’s miles above what previous models could do.

It can follow any precise directions you give it, follow any template you want, and when you give it carte blanche it still produces stellar results.

Haven’t tried building a full slidepack from scratch with it, but on already created material it takes it from 50 to 95% instantly, it’s pretty impressive.

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u/zookeeper25 3d ago

Have been using copilot as it’s completely integrated with everything in Microsoft office - and omg it’s so scarily good

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u/OpenOb 2d ago

Really? We have Copilot and an internal LLM platform with almost all Claudes and OpenAI models and Copilot is just bad.

It thinks less, it‘s less accurate and it struggles with correctly identifying useful context.

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u/compoundedinterest12 2d ago

I agree. Copilot is terrible.

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u/offbrandcheerio 3h ago

Copilot is good for very specific things. Digging through data in Excel and making summary charts and tables is a really good use case I’ve come across recently.

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u/JellyfishOk6515 2d ago

Yep. The client keeps using copilot after we’ve used our brains and Claude and they think the copilot output is better even though it’s total trash.

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u/zookeeper25 2d ago

I have been using gpt and Claude for personal stuff and copilot for work stuff. I must say copilot is just as good and the fact that it’s integrated so well into the Microsoft stack means I haven’t found the need to integrate with Claude and GPT. The quality on copilot has improved by leaps and bounds over the last 3-5 months 

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u/tanbirj ex MBB/ ex Big 4 2d ago

Wait till you try GPT or Claude. They are so much further ahead. In a lot of cases, they play better with the Microsoft stack.

Many of my clients are stuck with copilot because it’s the only one that their corporate risk police will allow them to use.

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u/vemoir_app 2d ago

+1 Claude / ChatGPT are way better then Copilot, give it a try (if possible). I worked in regulated offices where they only allow copilot and the quality of answers as well as the lack of autonomy of copilot annoyed me.

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u/Rabbit-Lost 2d ago

I’ve been more positive things about Copilot but I still believe, based on my experience, GPT and Claude remain better choices. And they both work really well in the 365 environment.

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u/lucabrasi999 3d ago

Just wait until your management gets the invoice.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

Can’t even say this anymore - we get a $2k monthly budget and I’m not in danger of hitting it. Use it every day, too.

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u/lucabrasi999 3d ago

The budget for the entire firm will be hit, trust me.

And when it does, you will be limited. It is only a matter of time.

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u/siteunreliability 3d ago

You're getting downvoted but you are correct. Much of the current AI compute costs are subsidized. Once that VC gravy train ends, the bill will become even higher than now.

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u/captain_shane 3d ago

You types seem to think that selling tokens is the business model, it's not. OpenAi and Anthropic and the others are going to completely take over certain industries. There will be an OpenAI biotech company, there will be an Anthropic cyber security company, etc. All the investor money is to get to AGI at which point they'll be able to recursively self-improve any business they startup.

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u/siteunreliability 2d ago

I'm not sure what the point is here. I understand that selling tokens and compute is the the means and not the end. However, there is no serious consensus out there that suggests AGI is mathematically or physically inevitable.

His and my point is that there is no free lunch and what we're getting right now is a subsidized lunch. That gravy train will end and the consulting firms then need to have a come-to-Jesus moment and decide whether they spend outrageous amounts for AI, or limit AI usage, or go back to the old model with AI assist.

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u/captain_shane 2d ago

Anthropic makes $1.70 in revenue for every dollar spent on computing power, it's not subsidized.

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u/siteunreliability 2d ago

It's Uber-subsidized, not below-cost. VC is funding the capacity. The figure you're quoting is inference priced for share at ~40% margin, against a stated 77% target.

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u/captain_shane 2d ago

Why lie? Anthropic is literally cash flow positive since the 3rd quarter. What are you even talking about with your numbers? Inference at 40% margins? Lmao

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u/siteunreliability 2d ago

ok clown lmao

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

I’m sorry but this is cope. There is 0 chance I am limited to less than $2k/month in tokens. My company gets way more value than that out of my incremental work.

Model efficiency will continue to grow faster than compute costs. Legislation is the only thing that could stop this train.

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u/lucabrasi999 3d ago

What can stop this train is interest rates.

Someone has to pay for the infrastructure costs to build this new utopia. And, from the reports I have seen, none of the major AI companies are actually profitable yet.

So they are investing billions for servers & data centers; while clients are backing away from using their latest models because of cost; all while apparently being completely unprofitable?

This feels like 2007 all over again, but worse.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

Your argument assumes that there is one type of “model” that exists that only gets more expensive and can only be bought from the model companies.

In reality, the cutting edge will get more expensive while the slightly below cutting edge, which is already plenty good enough, will get cheaper. And if OpenAI and Anthropic start charging more for their models, companies will start running open source Chinese models run in the Google/SpaceX/whomever data centers that have already been built.

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u/lucabrasi999 3d ago

You are assuming that Tesla and the Chinese don’t already have debt they cannot afford.

Check the stock price of ORCL. This is all a house of cards.

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u/Niedzwiedz87 3d ago

Wrong comparison. This is much closer to 2000 and the Internet bubble. Lots of companies died, but the technology stayed and it changed the world. There are doubts whether, like Amazon, the current leaders like Anthropic and Open AI can monetize their current situation, but the Chinese open source models are so close behind (and still progressing) that there can be no doubt that the capacity will stay.

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u/lucabrasi999 3d ago

Wrong comparison. I cannot wait to see a Western bank, Insurance company, Healthcare firm or Pharmaceutical give their data to the Chinese for the benefit of their AI.

Thankfully, I don’t belong to a bank.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

You can download the Chinese models. You could download one to a super powerful device and run it off the grid if you wanted to. 

They’re open source. There’s no data exchange.

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u/lucabrasi999 3d ago

And what bank or healthcare firm would run their business on open source models? Let alone Chinese open source models?

Don’t you know anything about how the real world works???

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u/captain_shane 3d ago

Don’t you know anything about how the real world works???

Do you? Do you know what linux is? Almost every major bank uses open source. The fuck are you doing consulting anyone?

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u/lucabrasi999 3d ago

“Goldman Sachs is now using an Open Source LLM developed in Shanghai” is pretty much the news release guaranteed to launch a recession.

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u/PaoloCalzone 3d ago

Wait until the energy costs are passed through in the pricing and not burning investors' cash.
The possible savior will be far lighter models, but it does not seem to be where we are headed.

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u/byebybuy 3d ago

5.5 is 20% cheaper than 4.8. It's getting more powerful and less expensive.

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u/sushicowboyshow 3d ago

How much is the cost?

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

It’s so model dependent, task dependent, and context dependent (I.e. have you pointed your Claude toward the right place or is it boiling the ocean)

With Opus 5.5 medium effort setting, which works for 90% of my day to day, I can use it the whole day and rack up maybe $100 in tokens.

If I was trying to burn as many tokens as I could, I could cost it way more. But by being precise with what I want, it’s a modest cost to a corporation for the return it gets.

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u/Remarkable-Fly3102 2d ago

I only spent $100 using max irresponsibly but still did 2 weeks work in 4 hours

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u/iRelinquish 3d ago

I prefer the output of AI over humans with the latest models. Given the exact same context and prompts as human.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

That’s been another subtle step change.

I used to gag at obvious AI writing. Now it’s not even obvious and normally even better.

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u/iRelinquish 3d ago

Absolutely. I just got downvoted for stating the truth plainly but the reality is if you can’t outperform an AI model you should be very scared.

I’m a startup founder and it’s getting hard to rationalize hiring anyone who can’t own a business process end to end. People need to be able to scale their work with AI or AI will replace them.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

What are the last business processes standing for you?

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u/iRelinquish 3d ago

Sales, customer success, and design. So things with relationships and taste.

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u/compoundedinterest12 2d ago

As an attorney, I also prefer AI output over junior associates. Plus, when it screws up, it apologizes better.

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u/Drew707 🗓️📈💸 3d ago

I'm not on the side of the house that uses Anthropic, but OpenAI has really changed how I work in the last month or so. I have it connected to almost everything, and the Dots thing is great as it proactively alerts me to shit I might not have addressed. Sol 6.1 is also much cheaper than Astra. From what I here it's the same situation with Opus 5.5.

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u/Full_Tooth_a 2d ago

I think provenance is the missing piece. Every generated deck should include source links, query dates, assumptions, calculation logic, and a note about what a human checked. I'd still spot-check a fixed sample against the underlying systems before circulating it. Once dressed up with nice formatting, a stale Slack message or bad join can look remarkably authoritative.

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u/MarsPassenger 2d ago

Yea, for any coding-based deliverable we use ForgeProof plugin on Claude marketplace. For decks, we use an internal tool that cites AI generated content. Analysts still must QC everything.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 2d ago

My Claude does all of that automatically except the note about what a human checked. You just need to tell it once and it does it.

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u/cheselnut 2d ago

I've been using Tracelight AI and found it very helpful and better than claude specifically for this use case

https://tracelight.ai/

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u/Remote-Trash 3d ago

I’m in ERP consulting. I was pulled into a stream that had been treading water for months. PM without needed specialist knowledge. Business reps smart, but no previous experience in SAP. The tech consultant played the dumb developer instead of guiding the team. The source materials are complex and in various degrees of done, spread across hundreds of BPD’s in Confluence, all with BP flow charts. Different authors, different writing styles. No standardized naming of objects. I installed Atlassian plugin and had Opus 5.5 crunch the data. After 30 min i found out it had basically one shotted not only the whole foundation, but also the whole project planning, with decision points, risks, mitigation, dependencies, sequence.

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u/Wild_Vermicelli8276 2d ago

Don’t you guys think that it’s very convenient timing with the IPO? They’re probably massively subsidising this model to get the hype train back on? Once IPO’ed they’ll crush you on cost?

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u/Rocketbird 3d ago

I’ve always been a ChatGPT user and just started using opus 5.5 this week and it truly is amazing. I can’t say it’s taking my job anytime soon but it has made the quality of my work substantially better. Great thought partner. Trying to get it to synthesize across tons of ambiguous data points on its own yields less than desirable results in addition to burning all my tokens.

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u/Any_Boysenberry655 2d ago

I personally still prefer Astra-6 with full access and running on Max or Ultra to structure really difficult stuff and then execute with a different model (Astra coordinating other threads in a project and websites / desktop apps via computer use).

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u/Relevant_Lie2081 2d ago

Yep the integration with internal tools is what made it click for me. Used to be a chore getting it to output our exact slide format and now it just does it

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u/PeeEssDoubleYou 2d ago

Is this an advert for Opus 5.5?

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u/shitty_horticoutor 2d ago edited 2d ago

Any positive thread on AI is botted to hell and back. The majority of these comments are not real. They never have real-world explanations or examples of what they do. They are only here to make you feel inadequate. Don't let them.

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u/PeeEssDoubleYou 2d ago

It's the only sane explanation.

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u/PrestigiousBedroom41 3d ago

Thank you for the post! Can you share 2-3 examples of your use cases in daily work?
That would help us to take best practices:)

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

Somewhat generalized, along these lines

“I’ve lost track on all the messages on [X initiative] across my slack and Gmail. Can you make sure I’m not missing anything”

“Can you grab that retention analysis I ran for [X] last month and rerun it for [Y]?” It’s insanely good at replication.

“Ad spend is down and my boss is asking which partners are spending less and if there’s anything driving that. Can you check which partners caused the downturn and check our internal search for any potential drivers and draft a note to the account execs”

“Can you make me a talk track for these slides and put it in the slide notes”

A lot is bespoke to my company so hard to share. Generally, I’d say any heads down work I can now run through AI. It’s skill in knowing what to ask and where to steer, but the execution (SQL, slides, sheets) is done by AI.

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u/ButOfcourseNI 2d ago

And it is able to scan through all your files to give you the synthesized answer?

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 2d ago

Yes, literally all of them

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u/ButOfcourseNI 2d ago

How big are your data sources, if you can share say in GB or number of files?

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 2d ago

I work at a very big tech company so the data is probably in the hundreds of GBs. 

It’s never keeping that much in its context window, though; it traverses the docs and writes SQL to find what it needs and interprets from there.

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u/ButOfcourseNI 2d ago

That's interesting. Last I had checked it burnt tokens by the dozen and wasn't accurate in its recall.

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u/makersmalls 3d ago

I always assumed a higher version number meant more expensive

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u/ChocoMcChunky 3d ago

It’s been great and we’re not even allowed to connect to slack or google drive

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u/ProfessionalCup7261 3d ago

How do I get started in using AI for my slides? I feel like I’m barely scratching the surface

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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 3d ago

Strongly agree and relate. 5.5 is a huge step change for knowledge workers.

Have you tried the Slide function in Claude? I think that’s going to be a huge change to workflows.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 2d ago

I’ve instructed Claude to build slides and gotten good results but I haven’t actually used the Claude integration in slides directly

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u/MundoAbroad 2d ago

I need to try it out. We don't have company wide access to the latest opus/astra models

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u/Remarkable-Fly3102 2d ago

I generated a 30 page deck in 4 hours the other night - not enterily polished but an excellent draft that will save a dozen hours a month

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u/tanbirj ex MBB/ ex Big 4 2d ago

Out of curiosity - has anytime compared Opus 5.5 against Fable 5.1 for strategy work?

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 2d ago

It’s good for building dashboards / applications. Opus 5.5 is as good as I need it to be for other strategy work at a fraction of the time.

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u/Dry_Pea3547 2d ago

We're getting close to being context limited not model limited.

By that I mean if the output is not good it's because the inputs are not good, not because the model cranking through it needs to be smarter.

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u/Gullible_Eggplant120 2d ago

I use it extensively, and it is pretty good. It is like an always-on intern for many manual grunt tasks. There are two caveats though. First it still is not on par with experienced professionals. Recommendations are very generic, even given enough context, it ignores some things that one would pay more attention to in real life, etc. Also it still plain hallucinates given a more complex task. I did one small stream of work with Claude and asked to create slides after significant back and forth. The data on some slides was plain wrong, which I noticed because I work in the industry. The slides also looked like mess, no proper structure, AI speak, etc. I wouldn't show any of them to the client.

Second caveat is I am sure many clients don't see the difference between Claude output and proper work and don't see the need hiring consultants for much of their strategy work ... which makes me question the future of this profession.

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u/Wonderful-North4690 2d ago

Some of us who worked/work in consulting are doing some model evaluation work on the side which helps to refine and shape output...

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u/Time_Extent_7515 2d ago

there are multiple ongoing projects by the data annotation firms (mercor, aptura, etc) that are training models directly based on consultant experience. I remember one in particular last summer that had 2k+ individuals reviewing AI-generated consulting documents

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u/Rabbit-Lost 2d ago

Did you read the HBR article on one of the majors building multiple models to develop strategy - some for data gathering, some for model development and some for challenging the models. Doing the work of dozens of offsite management and board retreats with multiple times better results.

If the day isn’t here, it’s coming very soon.

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u/passiv-app 2d ago

Looking at the AI data processing structure alone, it makes perfect sense. AI only improves at things it has solid data to work off of. That is, things that have a correct answer came first and as it becomes more and more capable the window of "correct" expands as well. It seems that it is reaching a threshold of being able to determine the most correct action from a set of technically correct actions. From a technological and purely observational perspective it is astonishingly impressive.

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u/fxlconn 1d ago

Yeah.

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u/truthdeflationist 22h ago

Yea it’s had its breakthrough moment 🤣

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u/Victor_eu 10h ago

Have you tried fable 5 or 5.1 before? What's your experience?

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u/bulletPoint 3d ago

Opus 5 is insanely expensive. But it is magnificent.

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u/Rams2019SBChamps 3d ago

Opus 5.5 is Opus 5 at a fraction of the cost

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u/QuitClearly 3d ago

5.5 is another tier or two above 5 while much cheaper and faster.

Astra is on same tier but expensive and slow

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u/Dry_Pea3547 2d ago

My personal ranking currently is:

Astra

Fable

Opus 5.5

GPT6.1 Sol

I haven't used Fable or Astra for coding but for written work analysis they are still better than Opus 5.5 for complex topics.

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u/QuitClearly 2d ago

Yes I am not a dev either, use it for tech consulting in Salesforce and Astra is amazing for me

Use Claude for html email, layout templates, JavaScript for simple website marketing source tracking, and slide deck design.

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u/kfortyone 3d ago

5.5 is a generational product.

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u/Fit-Property3774 2d ago

Consulting is the fucking worst 🤮