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I accidentally clicked the Claude Cowork button inside the Claude desktop app. I never used it. I didn't notice anything at the time, but a week later I discovered the huge VM file on my disk. It would be really nice to ask the user, “Are you sure you want to use Cowork, it will download and install a huge VM on your disk.”
Jesus Christ what kind of potatos are you using when 10 GB of disk space are even noticable for you?
I believe that employees in Anthropocs use CC to develop CC now. AI really give much user ability to develop a completed product, but the quality is decreasing. Professional developers will be in demand when the products/features become popular. First batch of users of new products need to take more responsibility to test the product like a rats in lab
Hi, Felix from Anthropic here. I work on Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Claude Cowork uses the Claude Code agent harness running inside a Linux VM (with additional sandboxing, network controls, and filesystem mounts). We run that through Apple's virtualization framework or Microsoft's Host Compute System. This buys us three things we like a lot: (1) A computer for Claude to write software in, because so many user pro…
Any chance you guys could get the Claude Desktop installer fixed on Windows? It currently requires users to turn on "developer mode." Sorry for the ask here, but unaware of other avenues of support as the tickets on the Claude Code repo keep getting closed, as it is not a CC issue. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/26457https:...
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> AI really give much user ability to develop a completed product, but the quality is decreasing. Professional developers will be in demand when the products/features become popular. Looking at the amount of issues, outages and rookie mistakes the employees are making leads me to believe that most of them are below junior level. If anyone were to re-interview everyone at Anthropic for their own roles with their own i…
Claude consistently tops the leaderboard in software engineering benchmarks.
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Yep, it is an awful situation. I'm increasingly becoming frustrated with how Apple keeps disrespecting users. I downloaded several MacOS installers, not for the MacBook I use, but intending to use them to create a partitioned USB installer (they were for macOS versions that I could clearly not even use for my current MacBook). Then, after creating the USB, since I was short of space, I deleted the installers, includi…
It's just as bas on Windows. Operating Systems and Applications have been using the user's hard drive as a trash dumping ground for decades. Temporary files, logs, caches, caches of caches, settings files, metadata files (desktop.ini, .fseventsd, .Trashes, .Spotlight-V100, .DS_Store). Developers just dump their shit all over your disk as if it belongs to them. I really think apps should have to ask permission before…
macOS presents your storage as a black box. You need to bend over backwards to delete things in that black box.
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The trick is to reboot into recovery partition, disable SIP, then run OmniDiskSweeper as root (as in `sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper`). Then you can find all kinds of caches that are otherwise hidden by SIP.
Hmm, Full Disk Access perm is not enough?
There are two levels above an administrator-level account: 1) the root user can access files that an administrator can't (e.g. the files of other users and certain system configuration files), and 2) the kernel and system processes can access "system" files that even root cannot - this is enforced by SIP.
Apple is quite liberal in what they hide away with SIP. It's possible for disk space to leak whereby the OS has decided to store some file that it doesn't need and there is no way to even list such files without following the above instructions - the only indication will be a mysteriously large amount of space taken up by the system.
It goes without saying that if you're going to delete system files you should make sure you know what you're doing.
Hi, Felix from Anthropic here. I work on Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Claude Cowork uses the Claude Code agent harness running inside a Linux VM (with additional sandboxing, network controls, and filesystem mounts). We run that through Apple's virtualization framework or Microsoft's Host Compute System. This buys us three things we like a lot: (1) A computer for Claude to write software in, because so many user pro…
Feedback: If your app is going to use 10GB of storage, tell the user in advance and give them a one-click way to remove it. Just basic manners. Don't pick your nose at the dinner table. It's not hard, just common decency.
> even the ones who are so often experience "approval fatigue". Not having to ask for approval is valuable.
This is by and large a short-term pro for Anthropic. It's often not one for the user, and in the long-term, often barely even for the company. In any case, it's a great example of putting Anthropic priorities above the users'. Which is fine and happens all the time, but in this case just isn't necessary. Similar to the AGENTS.md case. We're on the cusp of a pattern establishing here and that's something you'll want to stop before it's ossified.
Hi, Felix from Anthropic here. I work on Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Claude Cowork uses the Claude Code agent harness running inside a Linux VM (with additional sandboxing, network controls, and filesystem mounts). We run that through Apple's virtualization framework or Microsoft's Host Compute System. This buys us three things we like a lot: (1) A computer for Claude to write software in, because so many user pro…
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This one drives me nuts. Not just on Mac, also on iPhone/iPad. It's 2026, and 5G is the killer feature advertised everywhere. There's no reason to default to downloading gigabytes of audio files if they could be streamed with no issue whatsoever.
I'm on 5G right now and it just struggled to load the HN front page due to local network congestion. At times of day when it's not congested it reaches 60-90Mbyte/s in the same physical location Spotify just gave up while trying to show me my podcasts. I can't listen to anything not already downloaded right now. Yet at 3am I'll be able to download a 100GB LLM without difficulty onto the same device that can't stream…
Hi, Felix from Anthropic here. I work on Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Claude Cowork uses the Claude Code agent harness running inside a Linux VM (with additional sandboxing, network controls, and filesystem mounts). We run that through Apple's virtualization framework or Microsoft's Host Compute System. This buys us three things we like a lot: (1) A computer for Claude to write software in, because so many user pro…
> It's a real trade-off though and I'm thankful for any feedback, including this one. Feedback: If your app is going to use 10GB of storage, tell the user in advance and give them a one-click way to remove it. Just basic manners. Don't pick your nose at the dinner table. It's not hard, just common decency. > even the ones who are so often experience "approval fatigue". Not having to ask for approval is valuable. This…
but over 90% of their users are non technical so removing that approval step is the correct move in a product sense.
users install cowork for the magic, 10gb is negligible. these days even steam games are 50gb+ and you care more about the gameplay than the disk space.
hn should really touch more grass.