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Launching the Claude Partner Network
- rishabhaiover 8mo agoNaive question but do people really value certifications like these?
- KiranRao0 8mo agoMy naive guess is that business with no tech component hire consultants, and these are part of the sales pitch. Or governments/large organizations performing box checking exercises
- cyanydeez 8mo agoConsultants go anywhere management wants to offload responsibility for choices. It depends entirely on managers whether its just a blamewashing affair or actual beneficial responsibilirt.
- SpicyLemonZest 8mo agoThey do. Certifications make technical expertise legible to non-technical decisionmakers, and I've encountered people on both sides of that dynamic who affirmatively like it when companies set up programs like this. Obviously you and I would rather have someone who understands Claude make decisions about whether and how to use it, but in a lot of industries that's not realistic.
- MattGaiser 8mo agoNon-technicals do.
- cebert 8mo agoUnfortunately some business leads value these types of certifications and partner programs. I imagine there’s a great deal of overlap with these folks and those who use Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for purchasing decisions.
- 3rodents 8mo agoMost employees at most businesses show up do as they are trained and then go home, because that is what is asked of them. Even those who might have the inclination to explore new technology often will not for fear of doing something wrong. And that creates a big market for training: a company wants their employees to use Claude so the employees must be trained. Startups / technology companies that expect employees to be self-starters who can be set free to frolic amongst the problems are an aberration.
- skippyboxedhero 8mo agoConsultancies do. Deloitte are quoted on the page. Consultancy people at my place of work have all been "AI trained". Doesn't stop them being useless though, like giving an electric drill to a chimp and telling them to build a house...lots of action, a lot of screeching, not much work. One of the mistakes with AI is that people believe it will turn lead into gold: if you give AI bad prompts, AI will produce bad work.
- abirch 8mo agoConsultancies sell the resume and not the person. It's easier for them to quantify, "We have 300 CCAs" than it is "What have this person Kim who is really good."
- Covenant0028 8mo agoYes, because if that was their sales pitch, they would need to pay Kim more, and they would have to account for the fact that she's already allocated elsewhere. It's better to pretend all those CCAs are interchangeable.
- throwawaytea 8mo agoIf you give bad prompts to humans it produces bad work too.
- nlawalker 8mo agoAs a consumer of them, I love them: a company with an influential, widely-used technology or platform spends a ton of money signaling to the industry exactly what's important to know about it, creating training curriculum for it, and a whole infrastructure to verify when someone knows it, I'm going to take them up on all of that, especially in the cases where the investment is like $100, a little bit of studying (the likes of which I'd want to do anyway if I'm learning something new, and I'm happy to have their structured, prioritized list of topics and/or guided curriculum) and a couple hours taking an online-proctored exam. From that perspective, I don't have a good reason not to have a certification in something that's super relevant to my role. In interview/hiring situations where they're not expected or effectively required, they make for great chat fodder and a really good opportunity to exhibit awareness about yourself, the industry, and how the person on the other side of the table might perceive certifications given the context.
- laborcontract 8mo agoGod I hatelove this type of comment. You're totally right, but it's a complete repudiation of my initial reflex, which is to make a mockery of this. Great perspective. I'm going to do this. Haha.
- mathisfun123 8mo ago> spends a ton of money Bruh lol these courses are marketing material designed by fresh grad communications majors. You're falling for exactly the scam they want you to fall for by giving so much benefit of the doubt to entities which deserve none. Edit: no I don't do this kind of work but my mother does so I know exactly how the sausage is made.
- neya 8mo agoThink of these like the Google cloud or AWS certifications. A few companies that specialize in them will want you to have them. But for the rest of the industry, your ability to ace the technical interview will matter more.
- dudefeliciano 8mo agopeople no, legal persons yes
- icedchai 8mo agoI have a couple cloud certs because I was forced to get them by a previous employer. They are useless.
- skybrian 8mo agoI wonder who the audience is for an announcement about spending a lot of money on something vague?
- alephnerd 8mo ago> who the audience is... Businesses that are already in conversations about building partnerships and training with Anthropic. The real revenue that foundation model companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and others generate comes from enterprise deals with a smattering of government - not consumer. Consumer usage is largely a loss leader used as a training/refining tool, and it's best to view the economics of foundational model providers through the same lens you would a hyperscaler. A major component to AWS's rise was the ecosystem built around training and teaching how to use the AWS ecosystem thanks to the AWS certification program. Same for K8s via the Linux Foundation. By building a partnership and training motion, Anthropic can get the WITCHes, Deloittes, PWCs, Accentures, KPMGs, and others to start offering turnkey services, which is why Anthropic has been working on building co-sell relationships with those kinds of companies.
- peterweisz 8mo agoWould be grateful for a pointer on how to sign up to this.
- nerdsniper 8mo agohttps://customization-agility-483.my.site.com/anthropicpartners/s/partner-registration https://customization-agility-483.my.site.com/anthropicpartn... Linked from here: https://claude.com/partners https://claude.com/partners
- ekropotin 8mo agoThe first link looks very suspicious
- itintheory 8mo agoAppears to be where the actual link, http://partnerportal.anthropic.com/s/partner-registration http://partnerportal.anthropic.com/s/partner-registration, redirects. Site.com is some Salesforce related domain.
- OJFord 8mo agoHuh, so you got http; I'm now getting linked to: https://partnerportal.anthropic.com/s/partner-registration https://partnerportal.anthropic.com/s/partner-registration Which Firefox warns me has an untrusted cert.
- cyanydeez 8mo agoClassic vibe coding, everyone involved in AI has blinders when it comes to their dogfood.
- nerdsniper 8mo agoYes, that’s why I linked where I found it. Anyone suspicious can click through to it from the anthropic.com page. It’s the correct link though.
- codaphiliac 8mo agowatching all agile coaches turn into claude experts in 3 2 1 …
- colesantiago 8mo agoThe Suits, HR and execs would love this: "Must have a degree or certification in Claude." "Must hold an OpenClaw 2026 Grade II Certificate"
- 101008 8mo agoImagine being so close to build AGI and erase software engineer in the next 6 months, that you need to throw $100M to build a certification program...
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- iugtmkbdfil834 8mo agoUhh.. Deloitte and Accenture.. not exactly what I would call a good partner here unless you are looking for name recognition at executive level. Is that all that it is?
- clpm4j 8mo agoIt's part of enterprise sales which is how Anthropic will potentially be a long-term business.
- pempem 8mo agoWho purchases and greenlights adoption? These cycles are very long and partnering with consulting firms gets you cross industry access. In fact, if you look at basically every major AI/LLM player you'll see a similar "alliance" or "partnership". Its a sales channel of high end referrals.
- greatgib 8mo agoSuch a joke to advertise Claude as a tool to work on corporate technical debt when it is definitively the thing that will increase it a lot. And let's not even discuss the vacuity of their new cash machine certifications. "Architect" come on...
- rednafi 8mo agoShhh...you're only supposed to unilaterally praise it to get along with your clueless leadership.
- heliumtera 8mo agoThe same is true for every other strategy to avoid technical debt. It is bullshit all the way down.
- scuff3d 8mo agoWe're 6 months away from some company's app/infrastructure/whatever going down and staying down, because literally nobody knows how the 500,000 line code base works and Claude is stuck in a loop.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoLol, just press escape then tell it to roll back to the last stable release.
- scuff3d 8mo agoRight, because the same people who vibe coded their applications are the same people who take the time to setup robust infrastructure to allow for easy roll backs.
- otabdeveloper4 8mo agoLLMs are good for documenting specific things. E.g., "find where the method X is called and what arguments are passed". That can be useful for refactoring or debugging. Coding is the worst way to use an LLM though.
- rednafi 8mo agoSoon, we'll start seeing Claude certs getting listed on LinkedIn alongside Coursera courses. People with titles like Giga Chad, MBA, CSS, CKAD, XXX, PQRS are gonna love this. In no time, HRs will start slapping “10 years of certified Claude Code experience required” on job listings.
- neonstatic 8mo ago_Open to Claude_ ;)
- deadbabe 8mo agoit’s crazy how you could easily lie about having 10 years experience because your results are not that much different from someone who has only used Claude Code for like a week.
- CGamesPlay 8mo agoI hope it’s at least a little tricky, since Claude was released only 3 years ago. That said, I would not be surprised to see companies asking for 10 years experience, despite that inconvenient truth.
- deadbabe 8mo agoIf you work on 10 projects in parallel for a year using Claude code… you have the equivalent of 10 years of experience in 1 year.
- weird-eye-issue 8mo agoThat's not how it works...
- _aavaa_ 8mo agoIf you can add more people to finish a project faster, I can add more projects to get experience faster.
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- AvAn12 8mo agoIsn’t this sort of like saying you know how to use a web browser?
- what 8mo agoMaybe? My high school had typing classes and on word and spread sheets and whatever. They also had dental assistant program where you’d be certified by the time you graduate high school.
- deadbabe 8mo agoI think it’s pretty clear what the purpose of this stuff is: get people so invested into the Claude ecosystem with certs and “modernization kits”, so that when the subsidies end and subscription costs shoot up they feel they’re in too deep now to switch to something cheaper.
- ImaCake 8mo agoOr what if local models get good enough to threaten the server based product?
- otabdeveloper4 8mo agoThey're good enough already. The moat is only a) post-training magic for the elusive UX "vibes" b) stickiness of the Claude UI's. The first part will be eventually (give it a couple years) solved by a LoRA marketplace. The second is not relevant because existing UI's are very sticky already and Claude won't be able to overcome decades of inertia anyways.
- mock-possum 8mo agoThat and the price of hardware
- edf13 8mo agoThat is the biggest threat - and likely where things will end up eventually… it’s when that “eventually” is and what the server based providers can pivot to in that time.
- nosefurhairdo 8mo agoSeems unlikely. We're already seeing specialized hardware optimized for LLM performance (taalas, groq, cerebras), and simple economies of scale result in these sorts of products being a better value when rented from a server vs purchased/managed/upgraded for the typical the user. Frontier models will continue to be either exclusively available from servers or significantly more affordable from servers vs local alternatives for the foreseeable future.
- ares623 8mo agoI'm getting mixed signals. I thought these things are so magical that anyone can use them?
- fangorn 8mo agoThe hilarious question is: will you fail the AI certification for using AI during the exam? What if it's a competing AI?
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- kstenerud 8mo agoThis is very likely a defensive move to help build pressure against Trump designating them a supply chain risk (aka corporate death sentence). The more embedded they become in large organizations, and the more authoritative they become in certification, the harder it is for the government to kill their company.
- j45 8mo agoAnd/or it's a unique tool amongst the others.
- nothrowaways 8mo ago> Claude is the only frontier AI model available on all three leading cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft. Doesn't make sense.
- villgax 8mo agolol certifications for a proprietary model stack is not worth the storage or paper
- lelanthran 8mo ago> lol certifications for a proprietary model stack is not worth the storage or paper Are you sure? What about all those AWS, Azure, etc certifications that many places require their engineers to have?
- villgax 8mo agoThat’s literally to go and do that thing that AWS promises to offer off-the-shelf. Anthropic is trying to push architects for something which changes behavior every month pretty much so what works today may not work the same way in a quarter even ignoring determinism across hardware for the sake of it. Not one startup goes about trying to hire people with certifications. It’s usually body shops offering SMEs on specific technologies. Unless anthropc is offering an ever evolving architect then I’d be wrong.
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- mikkupikku 8mo agoWho's going to buy into this cert program when in all likelihood these roles will be taken over by agents like yourself in a year or two? I agree that a program like this is probably appealing to corporations at the present, but it seems like poor career planning for anybody to invest their time trying to become such a consultant.
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