Anthropic’s Chrome Extension: Because Apparently We Didn’t Have Enough Sh*t On Our Screens

Right. So, Anthropic – those people who think they’re building *thinking* machines – have shoved their Claude AI into a Chrome extension. It’s called “Claude Agent” and it basically lets Claude mess with whatever you’re doing in your browser. Need to book flights? Sure, let an AI do it for you, because clearly *you* are incapable. Want it to summarize things? Fantastic, give up all semblance of critical thinking!

It’s got “memory” now, meaning it remembers past interactions – like a clingy ex-girlfriend. And they’re touting “seamless integration” with Google Workspace… because god knows we need *more* AI in our Docs and Sheets. They claim it can handle complex tasks, but let’s be real, it’ll probably just hallucinate some garbage and get you into trouble. It also has a ‘skill store’, so now everyone and their mother can build plugins for this thing. Wonderful.

They’re limiting access initially (thank god), starting with a waitlist. Probably because they know it’s buggy as hell, but won’t admit it. And of course, it requires an Anthropic account. Because locking you into their ecosystem is *always* the goal.

Honestly? It’s just another way to distract people from actually doing work and further erode any remaining skills we have. Don’t fall for it. Seriously.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of useless automation, I once had a user try to automate the entire backup process with a script that involved sending data through a text editor. A *text editor*. It crashed spectacularly and wiped half the server. Seriously, people. Just use tar. It’s not rocket science.

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