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Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

#171
The problem is that knowledge workers just need the simplest way possible to automate their work. Currently I feel like Anthro is overcomplicating this. If I'm an accountant, I want to open Claude App, describe my workflow for balancing some books, then have Claude design a reusable WORKFLOW that it runs whenever I ask. The workflow only needs 2 primitive skills to do anything: /work, and /review. Compose these together with guidance docs into workflows, then workflows and call other workflows. It's all just callable skills.

/balance-books hey claude here's the books. Go balance them

Claude then uses the guidance docs and various subagents to review the books, send off parallel workers with cheap models, then review with a more expensive model. Done in the repeatable, correct order with independent review every time. As new models come out, your workflow structure stays the same. You just delete some prescription from the guidance docs.

https://github.com/DanMcInerney/orchflows

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

#172

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This is valid. 1. each one is a first-party vendor announcement, submitted very close to the announcement and under the vendors headline. 2. Titles are "verbatim" vendor headlines. No editorializing which follows HN guidelines to the letter. 3. Someone; a script/agent is watching vendor feeds and X accounts then submitting within minutes of the posting. 4. Altman/Navier–Stokes post got [duped] so prob not inside thin…

High frequency karma farming.

You aren't serious about high-frequency karma ("HFK") unless you colocate your equipment with the routing for your sources so you can beat your HFK competition to a submission by at least 200ms.

We will have reached HFK-ception when the bots are fighting to be the first to submit "How I used AI to build a High-Frequency Karma Farming Bot on Hacker News."

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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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 wr…

That makes sense since you treat it as your central productivity manager, but for me all of Claude/Codex/etc are not productivity tools, just heterogeneous compute /for/ the productivity tool :P

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

#174

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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?

I’m not the person you asked but I’m also confused by this use case.

Most restaurants have a web UI which is very simple and easy to use.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Nobody really knows how to product-ize any of these LLM interfaces beyond just chat. They don't want a traditional UI with buttons and forms and labels because they want the interface to be "chat". The problem is that "chat" is tedious. And the turn-based, linear nature of the chat interaction model makes it even more tedious and unproductive.

We’re working on this problem at my company. All of our competitors have churned out a bunch of generic chat based agents (basic harness with a few tools connected and different system prompts) to do basic stuff you’d used to do from a wizard or even just a couple of buttons in a form. We’re steering away from this by building full ‘surface’ agents with A2UI and an initial surface message. The users just see a normal…

Why would I want that for a form with buttons?

It sounds painful to debug

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Someone I know does this, and seems to think it's a flex, because he bragged about it being "the first time I've actually seen this presentation" a few times during the presentation. It was all awful.

I would immediately stand up and walk out of there. That's my time you're wasting!

It’s not your time anymore. It’s the corporations time ;)

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

#177
A bit meta, but this is one of the first posts in Anthropic's official blogs I've read that has distinctively Claude-style prose, thought less prominent than usual:

    What Claude makes doesn’t need its own place either.

    Enterprise admins choose when to turn them on

    the frustrating part was deciding where a task belonged

    What they’d started in one also didn’t carry into the other
And the unnecessary school-project level verbosity:

    You can choose how Claude checks in with you. By default,
    Claude asks before taking an action. If you’d rather let it
    keep working and check in only when something needs a closer look,
    you can turn that on. You keep the final say.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

#178

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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?

If it works reliably, sure? But like, it's not something I'd pay for.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

#179

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One thing I would like is a tree-like chat structure like reddit / HN. Many times I abandon the direction things have gone but would like to resume at some ancestor or sibling response.

Gemini has something kind of like this. In a chat, click on the "..." icon next to one of Gemini's responses and select "Branch in new chat". It creates a new chat which has the conversation up to that point and a link to the conversation you branched it from. The UI isn't tree-like, though. It's more like Git where each branch name is just mixed in with the rest of the soup of references.

GitHub Copilot in VS Code has a similar feature to "Fork" a conversation at any point in its history.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

#180

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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?

Noob comes from newb, which comes from newbie. Some argue it comes from "nubile" but I don't personally buy that etymology. I distinctly remember "newb" followed by "noob" but that was eons ago.
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