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

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post #293

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He’s the top comment on every AI thread because he is a high profile developer (invented Django) and now runs arguably the most information rich blog that exists on the topic of LLMs.

The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.

He very obviously disclosed that he had nano banana generate the logo. Using AI to boost himself is a different animal altogether. (The difference is lying)

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

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post #24

I was hoping for a moment that this meant they had come up with a design that was safe against lethal trifecta / prompt injection attacks, maybe by running everything in a tight sandbox and shutting down any exfiltration vectors that could be used by a malicious prompt attack to steal data. Sadly they haven't completely solved that yet. Instead their help page at https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13364135-using-…

Prompt injection will never be "solved". It will always be a threat.

Correct, because it's an exploit on intelligence, borderline intelligence or would-be intelligence. You can solve it by being an unintelligent rock. Failing that, if you take in information you're subject to being harmed by mal-information crafted to mess you up as an intelligence.

As they love to say, do your own research ;)

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

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post #295
post #24

I was hoping for a moment that this meant they had come up with a design that was safe against lethal trifecta / prompt injection attacks, maybe by running everything in a tight sandbox and shutting down any exfiltration vectors that could be used by a malicious prompt attack to steal data. Sadly they haven't completely solved that yet. Instead their help page at https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13364135-using-…

Terrible advice to users: be on the lookout for suspicious actions. Humans are terrible at this.

Heck, this is a form of prompt injection itself. 'Beware of suspicious actions! THEY who are scheming against you, love to do suspicious actions, or indeed seemingly normal actions that are a cloak for villainy, but we are up to their tricks!'

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

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post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He’s the top comment on every AI thread because he is a high profile developer (invented Django) and now runs arguably the most information rich blog that exists on the topic of LLMs.

The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.

That’s not really reasonable to assume at all. Five minutes of research would give you a pretty strong indication of his character. The dude does not need to self-aggrandize; his reputation precedes.

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

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Do the people rushing off to outsource their work to chatbots have a plan to explain to their bosses why they still need to have a job?

What's the play after you have automated yourselves out of a job?

Retrain as a skilled worker? Expect to be the lucky winner who is cahoots with the CEO/CTO and magically gets to keep the job? Expect the society to turn to social democracy and produce UBI? Make enough money to live off investments portfolio?

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

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post #77

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Trash is a shell feature. Unless a program explicitly "moves to trash", deleting is final. Same for Word documents. So, no, there is no undo in general. There could be under certain circumstances for certain things.

I mean, I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to tell it to move files to the trash instead of deleting them. Honestly, I thought that on Windows and Mac, the default is to move files to the trash unless you explicitly say to permanently delete them.

Yes, it is (relatively, [1]) trivial. However, even though it is the shell default (Finder, Windows Explorer, whatever Linux file manager), it is not the operating system default. If you call unlink or DeleteFile or use a utility that does (like rm), the file isn’t going to trash.

[1]: https://github.com/arsenetar/send2trash (random find, not mine)

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

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Frequency vs. convenience will determine how big of a deal this is in practice. Cars have plenty of horror stories associated with them, but convenience keeps most people happily driving everyday without a second thought. Google can quarantine your life with an account ban, but plenty of people still use gmail for everything despite the stories. So even if Claude cowork can go off the rails and turn your digital life…

Considering the ubiquity and necessity of driving cars is overwhelmingly a result of intentional policy choices irrespective of what people wanted or was good for the public interest... actually that's quite a decent analogy for integrated LLM assistants. People will use AI because other options keep getting worse and because it keeps getting harder to avoid using it. I don't think it's fair to characterize that as c…

What has gotten worse without AI? I don't think writing or coding is inherently harder. Google search may be worse but I've heard Kagi is still pretty great. Apple Intelligence feels like it's easy to get rid of on their platforms, for better and worse. If you're using Windows that might get annoying, personally I just use LTSC.

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

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post #475

Do the people rushing off to outsource their work to chatbots have a plan to explain to their bosses why they still need to have a job? What's the play after you have automated yourselves out of a job? Retrain as a skilled worker? Expect to be the lucky winner who is cahoots with the CEO/CTO and magically gets to keep the job? Expect the society to turn to social democracy and produce UBI? Make enough money to live o…

Many people will have to ask themselves these question soon regardless of their actions. I don't understand the critique here.

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

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post #475

Do the people rushing off to outsource their work to chatbots have a plan to explain to their bosses why they still need to have a job? What's the play after you have automated yourselves out of a job? Retrain as a skilled worker? Expect to be the lucky winner who is cahoots with the CEO/CTO and magically gets to keep the job? Expect the society to turn to social democracy and produce UBI? Make enough money to live o…

I wonder who the managers are going to manage..

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

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post #474

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.

That’s not really reasonable to assume at all. Five minutes of research would give you a pretty strong indication of his character. The dude does not need to self-aggrandize; his reputation precedes.

Perhaps. But perhaps this era of AI slop leaves a foul taste in many people’s mouth. I don‘t know the reputation, all I see is somebody who felt the need to AI generate a picture and post it on HN. This is slop, and I personally get bad vibes from people who post AI generated slop, which leaves me with all sorts of assumptions about their character.

To clarify, they are here to have fun, they liked the joke about cow-ork (which I did too, it was a good joke), and they had an idea on how to build up on that joke. But instead of putting in a minor effort (like 5 min in Inkscape) they write a one sentence prompt to nano-banana and think everybody will love it. Personally I don’t.

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