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Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#41

Hi, Felix from the team here, this is my product - let us know what you think. We're on purpose releasing this very early, we expect to rapidly iterate on it. (We're also battling an unrelated Opus 4.5 inference incident right now, so you might not see Cowork in your client right away.)

Hey Felix, would love to give you feedback, but the language redirect of the website is trying to route me to de-de, and thus I can't see the page.

You might want to fix this.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#42

Hi, Felix from the team here, this is my product - let us know what you think. We're on purpose releasing this very early, we expect to rapidly iterate on it. (We're also battling an unrelated Opus 4.5 inference incident right now, so you might not see Cowork in your client right away.)

Hi there, your training and inference rely on the openness of Linux. Would you consider giving something back with Claude for Linux?

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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post #36

It's so important to remember that unlike code which can be reverted - most file system and application operations cannot. There's no sandboxing snapshot in revision history, rollbacks, or anything. I expect to see many stories from parents, non-technical colleagues, and students who irreparably ruined their computer. Edit: most comments are focused on pointing out that version control & file system snapshot exists:…

TimeMachine has never been so important.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#44

It's really quite amazing that people would actually hook an AI company up to data that actually matters. I mean, we all know that they're only doing this to build a training data set to put your business out of business and capture all the value for themselves, right?

A few months ago I would have said that no, Anthropic make it very clear that they don't ever train on customer data - they even boasted about that in the Claude 3.5 Sonnet release back in 2024: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet

> One of the core constitutional principles that guides our AI model development is privacy. We do not train our generative models on user-submitted data unless a user gives us explicit permission to do so.

But they changed their policy a few months ago so now as-of October they are much more likely to train on your inputs unless you've explicitly opted out: https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms

This sucks so much. Claude Code started nagging me for permission to train on my input the other day, and I said "no" but now I'm always going to be paranoid that I miss some opt-out somewhere and they start training on my input anyway.

And maybe that doesn't matter at all? But no AI lab has ever given me a convincing answer to the question "if I discuss company private strategy with your bot in January, how can you guarantee that a newly trained model that comes out in June won't answer questions about that to anyone who asks?"

I don't think that would happen, but I can't in good faith say to anyone else "that's not going to happen".

For any AI lab employees reading this: we need clarity! We need to know exactly what it means to "improve your products with your data" or whatever vague weasel-words the lawyers made you put in the terms of service.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#45

It's really quite amazing that people would actually hook an AI company up to data that actually matters. I mean, we all know that they're only doing this to build a training data set to put your business out of business and capture all the value for themselves, right?

Its impossible to explain this to the business owners, giving a company this much access cant end up well. Right now, Google, Slack, Apple have a share of the data but with this Claude can get all of that.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#46
post #36

It's so important to remember that unlike code which can be reverted - most file system and application operations cannot. There's no sandboxing snapshot in revision history, rollbacks, or anything. I expect to see many stories from parents, non-technical colleagues, and students who irreparably ruined their computer. Edit: most comments are focused on pointing out that version control & file system snapshot exists:…

There's no reason why Claude can't use git to manage the folders that it controls.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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post #43
post #36

It's so important to remember that unlike code which can be reverted - most file system and application operations cannot. There's no sandboxing snapshot in revision history, rollbacks, or anything. I expect to see many stories from parents, non-technical colleagues, and students who irreparably ruined their computer. Edit: most comments are focused on pointing out that version control & file system snapshot exists:…

TimeMachine has never been so important.

TimeMachine is worthless trash compared to restic

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#48

It's really quite amazing that people would actually hook an AI company up to data that actually matters. I mean, we all know that they're only doing this to build a training data set to put your business out of business and capture all the value for themselves, right?

Its impossible to explain this to the business owners, giving a company this much access cant end up well. Right now, Google, Slack, Apple have a share of the data but with this Claude can get all of that.

We've seen this playbook with social media - be nice and friendly until they let you get close enough to stick the knife in.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#49
post #17

I cannot see this page, I'm redirected to https://claude.com/fr-fr/blog/cowork-research-preview which don't exist. Private tab doesn't help

Same for me but with my language. US defaultism strikes again ;) https://archive.ph/dIVPO here is an archive link that works

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

#50
post #36

It's so important to remember that unlike code which can be reverted - most file system and application operations cannot. There's no sandboxing snapshot in revision history, rollbacks, or anything. I expect to see many stories from parents, non-technical colleagues, and students who irreparably ruined their computer. Edit: most comments are focused on pointing out that version control & file system snapshot exists:…

Q: What would prevent them from using git style version control under the hood? User doesn’t have to understand git, Claude can use it for its own purposes.
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