Reading up on Cowork
9 deep · digging since jan 13
- Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences \ Anthropic
Anthropic's Economic Index shows Claude usage mirrors work and personal rhythms, higher-value work consumes more compute, and users who delegate more are more optimistic about AI's impact.
- Anthropic tests Claude Code upgrade to rival Codex Superapp
Anthropic is overhauling Claude Code's desktop app with project Epitaxy, introducing multi-repo support, sub-agent panels, and a Coordinator Mode to rival OpenAI's Codex.
- Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
Anthropic released Cowork, a GUI-based agent that extends Claude Code's capabilities to non-developers for file management and calendar tasks, but the HN discussion highlights significant security and prompt injection risks.
Takes
Fable 5 is now available in Claude Code and Cowork Fable is the best model I have used for coding, by a wide margin. It is a big step up, enabling less prompts and steers, more efficient token use, better code quality, better tool use, more intelligent self-verification, longer running sessions, and higher trust & autonomy. Happy coding!
@bcherny
look sometimes you need to throw AI at the big problems: like buying the best can opener in the world @nwilliams030 is tired of buying cheap crap. paid influencers, fake reviews, dropshipped garbage -- so she build a @claudeai brain to find things worth buying. In this week's ep, she shows us how she: - catalogs her exact purchasing criteria - has claude help find quality products from 100 year old brands at the same price as amazon - raise red flags (PE acqusitions!) in instagram feed products - use cowork to manage complicated returns Full episode on yt:
@clairevo
Projects are now available in Cowork. Keep your tasks and context in one place, focused on one area of work. Files and instructions stay on your computer. Import existing projects in one click, or start fresh.
@claudeai
New in Cowork: scheduled tasks.Claude can now complete recurring tasks at specific times automatically: a morning brief, weekly spreadsheet updates, Friday team presentations. pic.twitter.com/7ucKZbAVip
@claudeai
I am a Cowork believer, it is somehow the first time "Slack + Email + Docs + Agent Loop" has actually worked and we're just getting started https://t.co/WSBuiUZDoM
@trq212
Since we launched Claude Code, we saw people using it for all sorts of non-coding work: doing vacation research, building slide decks, cleaning up your email, cancelling subscriptions, recovering wedding photos from a hard drive, monitoring plant growth, controlling your oven.… https://t.co/KNc4YgK6nC
@bcherny