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Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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Anthropic: we will do the Code button first, then we implement Non-Code button. OpenAI: we will do the Non-Code button first, then we implement the Code button.

Not sure if this correct. Codex was one of the first research projects long before Anthropic was started as a company. May be they did not see it as a path to AGI. It seems like coding is seen by few companies as the path to general intelligence (almost like Matrix where everything is code).

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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> Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use Huh? Their "individual" plans are clearly for personal use.

Are we or are we not in a thread entitled "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work" ? :)

tbf, individuals do work that is not their employment (I was actually _more_ excited about this for my personal TODO lists than for my Real Adult Job, for which things like Linear already exist) - but I take your point.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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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.)

Being able to undo any changes that Cowork makes seems important. Any plans for automatic snapshots or an undo log?

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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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.

> Why are you marketing a product clearly for business use Huh? Their "individual" plans are clearly for personal use.

The organization plans don't work for very small organizations, for one (minimum 5 seats). Any solopreneur or tiny startup has to use individual plans.

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Is it really a VM? I thought CC’s sandbox was based on bubblewrap/seatbelt which don’t use hardware virtualization and share the host OS kernel?

Turns out it's a full Linux container run using Apple's Virtualization framework: https://gist.github.com/simonw/35732f187edbe4fbd0bf976d013f2... Update: I added more details by prompting Cowork to: > Write a detailed report about the Linux container environment you are running in https://gist.github.com/simonw/35732f187edbe4fbd0bf976d013f2...

Honestly it sounds like they went above and beyond. Does this solve the trifecta, or is the network still exposed via connectors?

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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Anthropic blog posts have always caused a blank page for me, so I had Claude Code dig into it using an 11 MB HAR of a session that reproduces the problem, and it used grep and sed(!) to find the issue in just under 5 minutes (4m56s). Turns out that the data-prevent-flicker attribute is never removed if the Intellimize script fails to load. I use DNS-based adblock and I can confirm that allowlisting api.intellimize.co…

A more easy reproduction: disable JS.

To bypass: `.transition_wrap { display: none }`

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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post #119

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.

> [consumer] ToS states it cannot be used for commercial purposes

Where? I searched https://www.anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms for commercial and the only thing I can see is

> Evaluation and Additional Services. In some cases, we may permit you to evaluate our Services for a limited time or with limited functionality. Use of our Services for evaluation purposes are for your personal, non-commercial use only.

All that says to me is don't abuse free trials for commercial use.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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Worth calling out that execution runs in a full virtual machine with only user-selected folders mounted in. CC itself runs, if the user set network rules, with https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime . There is much more to do - and our docs reflect how early this is - but we're investing in making progress towards something that's "safe".

Do the folders get copied into it on mounting? it takes care of a lot of issues if you can easily roll back to your starting version of some folder I think. Not sure what the UI would look like for that

Make sure that your rollback system can be rolled back to. It's all well and good to go back in git history and use that as the system, but if an rm -rf hits .git, you're nowhere.

Re: Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work

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A CLI chat interface seems ideal for when you keep code "at a distance", i.e. if you hardly/infrequently/never want to peek at your code. But for writing prose, I don't think chat-to-prose is ideal, i.e. most people would not want the keep prose "at a distance". I bet most people want to be immersed in an editor where they are seeing how the text is evolving. Something like Zed's inline assistant, which I found mysel…

I agree that for writing documents and for a lot of other things like editing csv files or mockups, I want to be immersed in the editor together with Claude Code, not in a chat separated from my editors
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