Re:Claude Whiteboards, Claude Sheets, and Claude Data
by NichoPaolucci on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @04:01PM
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That's the goal. They're desperately trying to make their platform 'sticky'. I see OpenAI using similar tactics with Spaces and Dots.
Dots in particular display some insidious methodology, they've hidden the "programmable" portions of an agent. They want to make it 'magic' (all your work goes through a single tool) but... that's pretty much exactly what businesses DON'T want. We need to see what it's doing, accessing, working with, underlying data, etc... It's an explicit business requirement for us.
The more they can 'hide' what the backend does, the harder it is to get away from the product.
Buuuuut, I don't think it's going to work. I can still export it somehow if I want to, and it would probably take 10-15 minutes... The whole point of these agents is that they're 'plug and play' with whatever technology you want.
And if they don't build them this way, someone will whip up an open source version that does it cheaper and more transparently in a couple of weeks.
Software being free now hits both of these companies exactly where they want protection.
Dots in particular display some insidious methodology, they've hidden the "programmable" portions of an agent. They want to make it 'magic' (all your work goes through a single tool) but... that's pretty much exactly what businesses DON'T want. We need to see what it's doing, accessing, working with, underlying data, etc... It's an explicit business requirement for us.
The more they can 'hide' what the backend does, the harder it is to get away from the product.
Buuuuut, I don't think it's going to work. I can still export it somehow if I want to, and it would probably take 10-15 minutes... The whole point of these agents is that they're 'plug and play' with whatever technology you want.
And if they don't build them this way, someone will whip up an open source version that does it cheaper and more transparently in a couple of weeks.
Software being free now hits both of these companies exactly where they want protection.