Launching the Claude Partner Network

rishabhaiover

Naive question but do people really value certifications like these?

skybrian

I wonder who the audience is for an announcement about spending a lot of money on something vague?

peterweisz

Would be grateful for a pointer on how to sign up to this.

codaphiliac

watching all agile coaches turn into claude experts in 3 2 1 …

colesantiago

The Suits, HR and execs would love this: "Must have a degree or certification in Claude." "Must hold an OpenClaw 2026 Grade II Certificate"

101008

Imagine 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...

iugtmkbdfil834

Uhh.. 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?

greatgib

Such 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

Soon, 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.

AvAn12

Isn’t this sort of like saying you know how to use a web browser?

deadbabe

I 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.

ares623

I'm getting mixed signals. I thought these things are so magical that anyone can use them?

fangorn

The hilarious question is: will you fail the AI certification for using AI during the exam? What if it's a competing AI?

kstenerud

This 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.

nothrowaways

> Claude is the only frontier AI model available on all three leading cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft. Doesn't make sense.