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Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by wasabi991011 » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:11 AM UTC

jampekka wrote: post #102

idle_zealot wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a nightmare scenario to me. "Claude, prepare me a presentation on XYZ." I get to work, go straight to the meeting room, and pull up what it made to present. It's barely coherent nonsense. Lots of irrelevant details, buzz words, wrong charts or confusing phrasing. Obviously LLM output. I read it out. When I'm done, I get a question about one of Claude's incorrectly inferred details. The shame instantly kills m…

> It's barely coherent nonsense. Lots of irrelevant details, buzz words, wrong charts or confusing phrasing. Obviously LLM output. Plenty of that even before LLMs too though.

I'm attending a conference that I also attended last year, and it's night and day.

This year, a good 40% of workshop slides are fully LLM generated, incomprehensible, and almost not matching what the speaker is talking about at all. Last year, while there were some poor presentations, standards were much higher.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by shepherdjerred » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:21 AM UTC

Sherveen wrote: post #6

People keep asking for this w/ Codex, too, and I really regret that both labs seem inclined to listen. If you ask a thinking/research type question in 'Chat' versus 'Work' mode in these products -- say, something complex about politics, or do a multiturn business strategy, or want to work thru a new concept, you get very different answers. The harness, steering, etc. in the chat/reasoning products is so much better f…

> The harness, steering, etc. in the chat/reasoning products is so much better for this type of question (that doesn't require code as a primary substrate).

I had this same thought recently. Is it possible to 'recreate' ChatGPT/Claude Chat easily in Codex or Claude Code? I assume it would roughly be just swapping the system prompt. Anthropic seems to publish theirs but I don't think OpenAI does

https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-pro...

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by willy_k » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:35 AM UTC

gffrd wrote: post #199

robotresearcher wrote: post #131

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> one of the best parts of vacations is actually planning it For some. Others hate or fear it. For others it just feels like work.

Imagine the fear these people will feel walking in to a vacation planned by … a ROBOT!

Social media has fried some people’s brains so much that it is incredibly anxiety inducing to make many typically mundane or routine choices, for fear of missing / missing out on something.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by tstrimple » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:41 AM UTC

cpcabbge wrote: post #101

ChickeNES wrote: post #92

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> 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?

There are a lot of people using this outside of the coding space, most of my friends use these to create decks and things like that to present. Mind you they never double check information and numbers.

Claude Code has almost always been able to do a passable job of this. I wonder if this new version will need less cleanup. Claude Code would write python scripts to generate the deck. It at least formatted cleanly with templates.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by tstrimple » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:44 AM UTC

ecliptik wrote: post #57

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…

Will there be a Claude Sheets too? I find myself using Claude to work with spreadsheets more than almost any other document type. It does okay now, but feel like it could be even better, especially with visualizations and formulas.

What sort of issues do you see with spreadsheets? I almost never use Claude or Cowork. Just Claude Code. When I've generated or modified spreadsheets it tends to build python scripts for it which makes regeneration trivial. I have to fight a bit on formatting sometime, but I find if I format it the way I want I can get CC to read the file follow that in the future.

Re: Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

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Post by tstrimple » Thu, Sep 17, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC

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…

I rarely use Claude or Claude Desktop. Almost 100% of my usage is Claude Code because it ties into all of the private infrastructure I've built around it. I've had decent success using CC for generating Office documents of various formats. It tends to reach for a python script and library to generate them and the output is typically clean and easy to apply a template to. I have had issues where I need to manually modify the files to demonstrate format and style, but that's also something that can built into context after with references to templates.

Where do you see Claude doing better than what I'm seeing with Claude Code in these circumstances? Are there any reasons for me to leave my pretty heavily customized CC environment for the other versions?