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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.)
Every startup is at the mercy of the big 3 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google). They can and most likely will release something that vaporises the thin moat you have built around their product. This feels like the first time in tech where there are more startups/products being subsumed (agar.io style) than being created.
As they should if they're doing most of the heavy lifting.
And it's not just LLM adjacent startups at risk. LLMs have enabled any random person with a claude code subscription to pole vault over your drying up moat over the course of a weekend.
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:…
Indeed there are and this is no rocket science. Like Word Documents offer a change history, deleted files go to the trash first, there are undo functions, TimeMachine on MacOs, similar features on Windows, even sandbox features.
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> (I don't think it's fair to ask non-technical users to look out for "suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection" personally!) It's the "don't click on suspicious links" of the LLM world and will be just as effective. It's the system they built that should prevent those being harmful, in both cases.
Operating systems should prevent privilege escalations, antiviruses should detect viruses, police should catch criminals, claude should detect prompt injections, ponies should vomit rainbows.
But you could totally have a tool that lets you use Claude to interrogate and organize local documents but inside a firewalled sandbox that is only able to connect to the official API.
Or like how FIDO2 and passkeys make it so we don't really have to worry about users typing their password into a lookalike page on a phishing domain.
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> (I don't think it's fair to ask non-technical users to look out for "suspicious actions that may indicate prompt injection" personally!) It's the "don't click on suspicious links" of the LLM world and will be just as effective. It's the system they built that should prevent those being harmful, in both cases.
Operating systems should prevent privilege escalations, antiviruses should detect viruses, police should catch criminals, claude should detect prompt injections, ponies should vomit rainbows.
It took some training but I'm now starting almost all tasks with claude code: need to fill out some word document, organize my mail inbox, write code, migrate blog posts from one system to another, clean up my computer...
It's not perfect perfect, but I'm having fun and I know I'm getting a lot of things done that I would not have dared to try previously.
It's a very powerful way to work on all kinds of things. V. interested to try co-work when it drops to Plus subscribers.
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Please elaborate
It works on Linux, Windows, macOS, and BSD. It's not locked to Apple's ecosystem. You can back up directly to local storage, SFTP, S3, Backblaze B2, Azure, Google Cloud, and more. Time Machine is largely limited to local drives or network shares. Restic deduplicates at the chunk level across all snapshots, often achieving better space efficiency than Time Machine's hardlink-based approach. All data is encrypted clien…
It is a very solid setup, with 3 independent backups: local, nearby and far away.
Now - it took an awful lot of time to set up (including drinking the wrapper to account for everything). This is advanced IT level.
So Time Machine is not for ignorant people, but something everyone can use. (I never used it, no idea if it's good but it has to all last work)
I'm a bit shocked to see so many negative comments here on HN. Yes, there are security risks and all but honestly this is the future. It's a great amplifier for hackers and people who want to get stuff done. It took some training but I'm now starting almost all tasks with claude code: need to fill out some word document, organize my mail inbox, write code, migrate blog posts from one system to another, clean up my co…
TBH this comment essentially reads as "other commenters are dumb, this is the future b/c I said so, get in line".
No, this doesn't need to be the future. There's major implications to using AI like this and many operations are high risk. Many operations benefit greatly from a human in the loop. There's massive security/privacy/legal/financial risks.
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.)
Your terms for Claude Max point to the consumer ToS. This ToS states it cannot be used for commercial purposes. Why is this? Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use and then have terms that strictly forbid it. I’ve been trying to reach a human at Anthropic for a week now to clarify this on behalf of our company but can’t get past your AI support.
This is a bit of an ironic phrase.