Episode notes
Anthropic has made pretty pictures free. Ask Claude a question and get a live dashboard back in 30 seconds, or turn your quarterly report into a short animated video. The tech bros were quick to declare the data amalgamators finished. It looks a lot more like something we’ve seen before. Artifacts, the interactive pages Claude has been able to build for a while, now come with a nice bow on them, a bit like when Power BI arrived as Power Pivot and Power Query in a shiny new wrapper.
Credit where it’s due on traceability. Each chart shows its working, which accountants will appreciate, and a lot of small business owners are visual people, like the salon owner who loves picking the colours. But it’s still garbage in, garbage out. A slick chart on dodgy numbers is just a prettier mistake, nobody has published any accuracy figures yet, and the real value sits in shaping the data properly before it ever reaches a chart, rather than tipping raw connections straight in.
Motion is a harder sell. A cartoon of the numbers might work for an internal annual report, but it’s hard to picture a tradie watching one and getting much out of it. It feels like a feature looking for a product.
Then there’s the bigger question of software going headless, where you never open the app and the AI does the work for you. Salesforce has opened every door, while Xero has only opened some. Jez and Cam on why going headless looks like ammunition for startups, while the big players with a loyal customer base would rather keep that relationship in their own world.
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