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

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Post by meowface »

apstls wrote: post #258
Recursing wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What probability would you give for Linux support for Claude Desktop in 2026?

Is it wrong that I take the prolonged lack of Linux support as a strong and direct negative signal for the capabilities of Anthropic models to autonomously or semi-autonomously work on moderately-sized codebases? I say this not as an LLM antagonist but as someone with a habit of mitigating disappointment by casting it to aggravation.

Disagree with what you wrote but upvoted for the excellent latter sentence. (I know commenting just to say "upvoted" is - rightfully - frowned upon, but in lampshading the faux pas I make it more sufferable.)

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

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Post by bandrami »

rammy1234 wrote: post #360
bandrami wrote: post #321

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My entire job is working with financial documents so this doesn't really do much for me

Not knowing what's your workflow, Wouldnt this be possible in future for cowork, to read the financial documents and derive insights and build reports and you build your workflow ?

I mean, maybe? I'm not sure there are really "insights" I'm missing here that I need a probabilistic take about

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

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Post by tkgally »

felixrieseberg wrote: post #6

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.)

You released it at just the right time for me. When I saw your announcement, I had two tasks that I was about to start working on: revising and expanding a project proposal in .docx format and adapting some slides (.pptx) from a past presentation for different audience.

I created a folder for Cowork, copied a couple of hundred files into it related to the two tasks, and told Claude to prepare a comprehensive summary in markdown format of that work (and some information about me) for its future reference.

The summary looked good, so I then described the two tasks to Claude and told it to start working.

Its project proposal revision was just about perfect. It took me only about 10 more minutes to polish it further and send it off.

The slides took more time to fix. The text content of some additional slides that Claude created was quite good and I ended up using most of it, but the formatting did not match the previous slides and I had to futz with it a while to make it consistent. Also, one slide it created used a screenshot it took using Chrome from a website I have built; the screenshot didn’t illustrate what it was supposed to very well, so I substituted a couple of different screenshots that I took myself. That job is now out the door, too.

I had not been looking forward to either of those two tasks, so it’s a relief to get them done more quickly than I had expected.

One initial problem: A few minutes into my first session with Claude in Cowork, after I had updated the app, it started throwing API errors and refusing to respond. I used the "Clear Cache and Restart" from the Troubleshooting menu and started over again from the start. Since then there have been no problems.

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

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Post by xlbuttplug2 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #356
xlbuttplug2 wrote: post #162

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> They can and most likely will release something that vaporises the thin moat you have built around their product. 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.

LLMs by their very nature subsume software products (and services). LLM vendors are actually quite restrained - the models are close to being able to destroy the entire software industry (and I believe they will, eventually). However, at the moment, it's much more convenient to let the status quo continue, and just milk the entire industry via paid APIs and subscriptions, rather than compete with it across the board.…

Surely they've reserved the best models for themselves and have people looking into how to optimally harness untapped potential from LLMs?

Edit: I guess the competition between them keeps them honest and forces them to release their best models so they don't lose face.

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

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Post by majormajor »

The hero image with a set of steps:

1) Read meeting transcripts 2) Pull out key points 3) Find action items 4) Check Google Calendar 5) Build standup deck

feels like "how to put yourself out of a job 101."

It's interesting to see the marketing material be so straightforward about that.

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

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Post by sepositus »

majormajor wrote: post #365

The hero image with a set of steps: 1) Read meeting transcripts 2) Pull out key points 3) Find action items 4) Check Google Calendar 5) Build standup deck feels like "how to put yourself out of a job 101." It's interesting to see the marketing material be so straightforward about that.

But it immediately forgets the results of step 1 by the time it hits step 3 (due to context rot) and starts inventing action items.

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

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Post by jakeydus »

ehnto wrote: post #320
lijok wrote: post #271

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People love their cars, what are you talking about

I am a car enthusiast so don't think I'm off the deep end here, but I would definitely argue that people love their cars as a tool to work in the society we built with cars in mind. Most people aren't car enthusiasts, they're just driving to get to work, and if they could get to work for a $1 fare in 20 minutes on a clean, safe train they would probably do that instead.

I am this person. I love the convenience of a car. I hate car ownership.

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

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Post by kamaal »

jryio wrote: post #36

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:…

>>I expect to see many stories from parents, non-technical colleagues, and students who irreparably ruined their computer.

I do believe the approach Apple is taking is the right way when it comes to user facing AI.

You need to reduce AI to being an appliance that does one or at most a few things perfectly right without many controls with unexpected consequences.

Real fun is robots. Not sure no one is hurrying up on that end.

>>Edit: most comments are focused on pointing out that version control & file system snapshot exists: that's wonderful, but Claude Cowork does not use it.

Also in my experience this creates all kinds of other issues. Like going back up a tree creates all kinds of confusions and keeps the system inconsistent with regards to whatever else it is you are doing.

You are right in your analysis that many people are going to end up with totally broken systems

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

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Post by [deleted] »

falloutx wrote: post #5

Can humans do nothing now? Is it harder to organise your desktop? I thought Apple already organises them into stacks. (edit: Apple already does this) Is it that hard to check your calendar? Also feels insincere to have a meeting of say 30 mins to show a claude made deck that you did it in 4 seconds.

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