Claude Cowork

“Claude cowork could just do my monthly tax receipt collection and compare with my account better than the bookkeeper I pay for it”

“It's not a bad idea, however if Cowork, Designs, Docs and Slides are still different products, it'd be great for the user to know”

“Work gives the model a computer instance it can use for programmatic data access, API munging, etc.”

“it sort of did it, over a long period of time - and felt like a perl script could have done it better faster”

“Currently you can't use all features of Cowork as an example, because they are illegal in the EU.”

“Claude _very_ rapidly gained traction in the business/enterprise space earlier this year with Claude Cowork leading that drive.”

“Claude cowork was able to understand the problem, interview me, find dental insurance paperwork in my email”

“Cowork had it for me in under 30 seconds - I didn't even have to really look away from the zoom.”

“lots of highly-educated knowledge worker friends who aren't particularly techie but who swear by Claude Cowork”

“claude cowork has been pretty much useless. for the desktop control, it just seems like the The accessibility stuff is just not there yet on macOS to support it.”

“they give you a month free of Cowork which is currently Opus 4.8 (or at least they did for us) and I doubt we'd ever go back”

“Microsoft's Cowork is the first time I've seen a system which can actually directly replace people who aren't experts in their business domain.”

“A native macOS version of Claude Desktop (and therefore Claude Cowork) would be a huge step forward for Anthropic.”

“Claude Cowork has been decent at creating and partially implementing effective marketing campaigns for us.”

“Every executive/leader I've shown Claude Cowork to has gone from 'what is AI' to 'vibecoding whole apps' in weeks.”

“Sometimes the tweaks are a bit dumb, sometimes completely trivial, and other times they just undo what they did previously.”

“they're very powerful and helpful once people get up and running, but people struggle to get up and running”

“same but now we're smarter, if you change the current convo we don't stop the underlying long-running process”

“It's all made with Claude Cowork to extract the Historical data from my 4GB Apple Health export”

“The fix was using Cowork's hook system to monitor them at the infrastructure level, bypassing agent judgment entirely.”

“Cowork with skills plugins that leverage Python or bash is a remarkably enabling framework given how straightforward it is”

“I tried to use it right after launch from within Claude Desktop, on a Mac VM running within UTM, and got cryptoc messages about Apple virtualization framework.”

“Anthropic has a clear vision, they want to build the best agentic models so they can build products for humans to use like Claude Cowork, and Claude Code.”

“Claude Cowork is already good enough that it's hard to see how the legal tech startups are going to differentiate”

“Cowork AI is an innovative artificial intelligence tool designed to enhance productivity and collaboration in remote work environments.”

“Cowork seems like it's going to allow me to use the best parts of Claude Code, without being forced to output everything to code.”

“The tool was able to craft a python script that used ffmpeg to edit out the no-motion portions of the videos”

“Anthropic allows the unrestricted upload of personal files to the anthropic cloud environment, but does not check to make sure that the cloud environment belongs to the user running the session.”

“if you set up this feature, you'll give this tool access to all of your private files and an unlimited ability to exfiltrate the data”

“Cowork will result in millions of unsuspecting users having complete folders full of data uploaded and persisted on servers”

“Cowork feels like a real step toward usable agent AI, but that also means we'll really learn how robust (and safe) this stuff is”

“it immediately forgets the results of step 1 by the time it hits step 3 (due to context rot) and starts inventing action items.”

“should work incredibly well for overnight organizing tasks organizing md files, photos etc.”

“This product barely works. It can't connect to the browser extension and when I share folders for it to access, nothing happens.”

“use cases like "Organize my desktop" are horrible misapplications that are insecure, inefficient and a privacy nightmare”

“I like this idea but really do not want to share my personal data to cloud based LLM vendors.”

“I don't think it's fair to ask non-technical users to look out for "suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection" personally!”

“I find it a bit disheartening to see development resources being poured into a product that isn't available on my platform”

“the problem remains that if you grant access to a file and then get hit by malicious instructions from somewhere those instructions may still be able to steal that file”

“Are you sure that you need to grant the cloud full access to your desktop + all of its content to sort elements alphabetically?”