Anthropic says Smart Reports shouldn't be used to evaluate employees, then lets management attach names to their Claude sessions. Apparently workplace surveillance becomes ethical if you put a disclaimer on it. The real innovation here is outsourcing micromanagement to the machine.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2026
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AI can make decisions and micromanage. What's stopping the higher ups from replacing lower management now?
Kissassery, mostly. Why have one AI inflate your ego when you can have twelve department heads and one AI stroke your ego?
Hey Claude, go on the Internet and spread misinformation about my boss so that they get fired and I can take their job.
This was already possible with everything on enterprise plans anyway, this is just streamlining piping the data back in for Claude to analyze. Sensationalist headline
Micromanagement to a whole new level.
Is it really any different than companies having full access to your email, teams chats, and other correspondence tools provided by the company?
The only thing protecting us before was "who has the time to analyze all the data we gather about you?".
Without analysis how could they tell that you consistency take an extra 1.45 minutes to clock back in from lunch when you eat Taco Bell. Schedule a colon cancer screening, while also increasing your health insurance premium along with your estimated new risk level due to your sub optimal life choices? This is all needed to insure you last meat bags with jobs perform to shareholder expectations.
Well guess what LLMs are really good at?
Good. Fuck Claude. Fuck any company that uses it. I hope they eat themselves alive from the inside out. Stop working for companies that do this.
Reasonable. I hate eating and paying rent.
There's a pile of products that already monitor LLM use, prompts, data sent, etc. There's a whole branch of cyber called AISPM tnat deals with it.
This is going to be chaotic!