In this newsletter:
First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent
Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time
My answers to the questions I posed about porting open source code with LLMs
Plus 4 links and 1 quotation and 1 TIL
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New from Anthropic today is Claude Cowork, a “research preview” that they describe as “Claude Code for the rest of your work”. It’s currently available only to Max subscribers ($100 or $200 per month plans) as part of the updated Claude Desktop macOS application.
I’ve been saying for a while now that Claude Code is a “general agent” disguised as a developer tool. It can help you with any computer task that can be achieved by executing code or running terminal commands... which covers almost anything, provided you know what you’re doing with it! What it really needs is a UI that doesn’t involve the terminal and a name that doesn’t scare away non-developers.
“Cowork” is a pretty solid choice on the name front!
What it looks like
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