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Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by snug »

ChickeNES wrote: post #99
snug wrote: post #30

Really excited to try the gsuite replacements, which seems like the bigger announcement than the title suggest

Why? I only use gsuite for interop between Claude and ChatGPT and other services...so a moat like that is totally worthless to me

I still use Google Workspace for personal and work stuff, but for solo agent workflows, I think I have some use cases that would help me personally. I can let agents spin up working documents that I can review, comment on, and iterate over asynchronously.

For example, I’ve spent the last few weeks building an internal ticketing setup for my agents so they stop trying to fix every tangential issue they encounter. I wrote a skill where subagents bubble out-of-scope issues up to a parent orchestrator, which decides whether to log a ticket.

Currently, that setup mirrors between a local SQLite database and an Obsidian vault: agents write to SQLite, which syncs to Obsidian; when I edit notes in Obsidian, it syncs back. Native Claude docs mean I could ditch the Obsidian middleman for remote review—editing tickets from anywhere while keeping the core SQLite state local to where the agents execute.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by janalsncm »

user_7832 wrote: post #159
owlninja wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally unrelated but I google'd their username to see if there was a clue, and I had no idea this feed existed: https://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories

...does noob here just refer to a new (green) user? Or is it something else?

Technically “new user” I think.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by dmd »

ChickeNES wrote: post #92
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…

> Claude Design, Claude Docs, and Claude Slides Why/when would I ever need any of these? Can't y'all focus on useful features instead?

I guess they didn't realize you're their only user!

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by dvt »

nonethewiser wrote: post #80
dvt wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My personal hot take is that the product people (engineers too probably) at these companies are just straight up lazy. Yes, a new UI paradigm is hard, but it's been painfully obvious that chat just absolutely sucks. It's also obvious that some DSL-ish thing is possible, something that just does token juggling and the end-user sees some UI behavior. I know this all sounds abstract. I've been mulling over it for the pa…

Can you elaborate? How in the world would I interface with claude other than sending it messages?

> How in the world would I interface with claude other than sending it messages?

The protocol will of course be `text -> text` for the typical LLM (though some new models are structured, as we saw yesterday with Jev). Even so, the user doesn't need to be exposed to the protocol (almost ever). It's not like I'm crafting a POST request to send this form.

There's a lot of room for window dressing, and I look at AI like I look at the touch-screen. It was a fun technical toy until people (mostly Apple) poured in a lot of serious effort into "ok, how do we make this pleasant to use, intuitive, and genuinely useful?"

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by crisnoble »

colingauvin wrote: post #148
x187463 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've found basically all of the release presentations are completely irrelevant and seem to target a very narrow subset of the population. They're always reserving something like a restaurant or a sports venue or generating a new slide deck for their business meeting. Perhaps these companies would do better if they could make a use case for regular people. You know, the 90% of the folks out there working normal jobs…

I'm probably about 90%ile income for my household but live in a HCoL area and have two children in daycare. I rent, don't own, and I have enough that I can buy a coffee without thinking, but will be sending my kids to public school, can't just up and go on a vacation. I make restaurant reservations 7-8 times a year? My wife and I go on dates and you simply aren't getting a table where I live if you don't. Fyi we typi…

And does having an AI call the restaurant instead of you doing it sound cool to you?

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by [deleted] »

peterldowns wrote: post #118

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.

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Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by brazukadev »

vertigoruntime wrote: post #158
peterldowns wrote: post #118

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.

I just have RSS feeds of news in AI circles that may be cool, built an entire tracker around it - helps me pick up new stuff on time !

this post became a great "Show HN" for it

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by natsucks »

peterldowns wrote: post #118

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.

I question all the time what dictates the posts I see on the front page every day, and whether or not it's truly based on organic interest. i wish i could say i up/down vote frequently but i do not and i wonder if that's true for most people.
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