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Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by jameshart »

royal__ wrote: post #8

These kinds of updates always have this romantic scenario of someone having Claude develop a presentation or something on their way to work between multiple devices, which actually feels a little sad and does not align with what happens in my life at all.

Because nobody actually knows what anybody else’s job consists of. But everyone is familiar with how jobs work in the ‘romcom job universe’ where workplace stakes are generally driven by ‘I have this really important make-or-break presentation due Friday!’

I suspect it’s because writers don’t normally have jobs and the only time they are ever in offices it’s to deliver a pitch for a project.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by ieie »

kylecazar wrote: post #35
royal__ wrote: post #8

These kinds of updates always have this romantic scenario of someone having Claude develop a presentation or something on their way to work between multiple devices, which actually feels a little sad and does not align with what happens in my life at all.

"Plan a trip to Italy next month and book the flights" I see a version of that all the time and would never, ever do it.

This is why nobody should be afraid of technologists.

They tend to invent technology and never figure out where it truly belongs.

Failing that - they’ll claim the world is ending.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by fernandotakai »

gffrd wrote: post #72
kylecazar wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Plan a trip to Italy next month and book the flights" I see a version of that all the time and would never, ever do it.

These are modern infomercials. Concrete pains ("planning a vacation is hard!"), shallow solutions that don't stand up to real-world use, and, in the end, a promise left unfilfilled. (And a thing in your drawer that takes up space.)

honestly, one day i will understand why these guys go so hard on planning vacations.

one of the best parts of vacations is actually planning it! trying to find restaurants, organizing your days, trying to fit activities -- that makes you look forward to your time off.

really, i want to automate the boring parts of my life (did i really pay rent this month?) not the things that make me happy.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by skybrian »

royal__ wrote: post #8

These kinds of updates always have this romantic scenario of someone having Claude develop a presentation or something on their way to work between multiple devices, which actually feels a little sad and does not align with what happens in my life at all.

I'm retired and write code as a hobby, not presentations or docs, but it fits how I use exe.dev to make a code change. I will have a conversation with the AI, then say "Please go ahead" and close my laptop to do something else. Since I use web browsers exclusively for this, I can check on its progress from my phone, tablet, or laptop.

(They have iOS and Android apps too, but I've never bothered to install them.)

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by Selkirk »

felixrieseberg wrote: post #46

Hi, this is my team! Happy to answer any questions. There's a lot in this launch, but the core idea is to simplify the product while giving users access to more capabilities. You no longer need to know ahead of time how much work a conversation might involve. If you're at your computer, Claude can use your local files and apps. If you close your laptop, Claude can keep working on its own computer. This launch also le…

From a user experience standpoint this sounds like a clear win. Congratulations.

With AI safety top of mind so much lately, I can't help but notice the announcement does not address this.

With "Chat" mode, there was a user expectation that session had only limited capability to produce unexpected side effects, read sensitive files, etc.

With "Cowork" mode, it seems like more powerful capabilities have been on by default, requiring deep settings and safety understanding to disable if desired.

Merging modes feels like it is removing a simple and easy to understand risk management tool. How does the combined mode help users understand, manage and feel confident about what risks they are accepting?

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by ieie »

felixrieseberg wrote: post #46

Hi, this is my team! Happy to answer any questions. There's a lot in this launch, but the core idea is to simplify the product while giving users access to more capabilities. You no longer need to know ahead of time how much work a conversation might involve. If you're at your computer, Claude can use your local files and apps. If you close your laptop, Claude can keep working on its own computer. This launch also le…

How do you guys have so many resources but no taste? It’s crazy.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by theturtletalks »

no_no_no_yes wrote: post #83
Sn0wCoder wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope not Chat is still all you can eat and Work uses Codex tokens. I can see why they would want people to think they wanted this without thinking about how it currently works. If Chat starts eating tokens then there is not much reason to use Chat other than most people don't live in the command line like developers. Claude Chat / Cowork already eats tokens either way so not much of a change really. I have never us…

This is my main reason for not using Work. I was tempted to use a few "scheduled tasks" in ChatGPT, but once I found out they used Codex tokens I stopped creating new ones. I already burn through Codex too fast.

I built a terminal control plane and added an MCP server that runs on my Mac. It lets MCP clients create terminal sessions, send messages, read the contents, etc on my Mac.

The terminal sessions are running Luna on XHigh (on Pi) and GPT 6 Pro on ChatGPT.com is the main orchestrator.

Since ChatGPT and Codex have different limits, I can have 6 Pro orchestrate the Luna sessions. Using voice mode to talk back and forth about the software factory is really nice. Will be open-sourcing soon.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by peterldowns »

How did this new account `vertigoruntime` get three posts on the front page, all in the last day?

- This post

- The DeepMind Institute https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727659

- Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49723408

based on their account submission history they have a 25% hit rate (!) Seems very, very weird.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by mrcwinn »

royal__ wrote: post #8

These kinds of updates always have this romantic scenario of someone having Claude develop a presentation or something on their way to work between multiple devices, which actually feels a little sad and does not align with what happens in my life at all.

I do this pretty regularly. It's great.
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