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There's enormous amounts of work done every day in corporate America that amounts to \"I need X, but X involves some data from legacy system Y and legacy system Z, and that's going to take me an hour to glue together because our enti", "context": "works at a non-tech employer in corporate America", "use_case": "scripting data glue between legacy systems", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots"}, {"id": 783460896, "item_id": 48966306, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966306", "by": "intromert", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The other day I used Claude Cowork to create a checklist for me so that I can safely re-install my laptop", "excerpt": "The other day I used Claude Cowork to create a checklist for me so that I can safely re-install my laptop... It went through all ssh configuration, apps, downloads, documents etc... Once I had the checklist, I asked it to do the backup itself, along with instructions to re-install/setup everything once I had the laptop re-installed. This was something I was procrastinating for too long already...", "context": "", "use_case": "laptop reinstall checklist and backup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"}, {"id": 800780016, "item_id": 50048751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048751", "by": "nasmorn", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude cowork could just do my monthly tax receipt collection and compare with my account better than the bookkeeper I pay for it.", "excerpt": "Also seems weird to me. Claude cowork could just do my monthly tax receipt collection and compare with my account better than the bookkeeper I pay for it. 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Why pay a middle man?", "context": "", "use_case": "non-tech employee AI work", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "SpaceX Is Buying Cursor"}, {"id": 745504114, "item_id": 46594007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594007", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This sounds really interesting.", "excerpt": "This sounds really interesting. Perhaps this is the promise that Copilot was not. I'm really hoping that this gives people like my wife access to all the things I use Claude Code for. I use Claude Code for everything. I have a short script in ~/bin/ called ,cc that I launch that starts it in an appropriate folder with permissions and contexts set up: ~ tree ~/claude-workspaces -d /Users/george/claude-workspaces \u251c\u2500\u2500 c", "context": "", "use_case": "Claude Code-like assistant for non-developers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}]}, {"text": " The most common complaints are bugs with connectors, plugins and folder sharing", "cites": [{"id": 745544624, "item_id": 46596539, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596539", "by": "mrcwinn", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This product barely works. It can't connect to the browser extension and when I share folders for it to access, nothing happens.", "excerpt": "This product barely works. It can't connect to the browser extension and when I share folders for it to access, nothing happens. 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I guess I\u2019ll give this a try, but I don\u2019t have high hopes.", "context": "", "use_case": "scheduled Slack tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Routines"}, {"id": 764307137, "item_id": 47769196, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769196", "by": "eranation", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "compare", "quote": "tried it with non Claude Code scheduled tasks (CoWork) not as good", "excerpt": "I've been using it for a while (it was just called \"Scheduled\", so I assume this is an attempt to rebrand it?) It was a bit buggy, but it seems to work better now. Some use cases that worked for me: 1. Go over a slack channel used for feedback for an internal tool, triage, open issues, fix obvious ones, reply with the PR link. Some devs liked it, some freaked out. I kept it. 2. 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I use both and I mostly just guessed when to use Cowork.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"}, {"id": 792173040, "item_id": 49510815, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510815", "by": "bjackman", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "when I've done that I've felt this was the right choice", "excerpt": "It's funny coz it seemed like they also cloned the confusion. I don't really understand what Claude Cowork is. Sometimes I use it instead of plain Claude Chat for tasks that \"feel big\"? And when I've done that I've felt this was the right choice. But until I actually had that session up and running I would not be able to articulate what Cowork is or enumerate any specifics of how I expected it to behave. 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I use claude cowork to create email designs using data and content from our CMS, it can push accepted work straight into our system, evaluate content, and analyze results. All of that used to b", "context": "", "use_case": "email design from CMS content", "switched_from": "", "story": "MCP was always a bad idea?"}, {"id": 758163712, "item_id": 47385232, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385232", "by": "spiderfarmer", "date": "2026-03-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Cowork to talk to my (remote) CMS over MCP to continually improve all content in my website.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Cowork to talk to my (remote) CMS over MCP to continually improve all content in my website. If I find a new nugget of interesting information, I tell it to improve my content with it. I created lots of tools to help it do things that would require multiple calls in a pure, basic REST api. Plus you can describe lots of guidelines right in the MCP instructions. 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This was something I was procrastinating for too long already...", "context": "", "use_case": "laptop reinstall checklist and backup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"}, {"id": 778539137, "item_id": 48658696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658696", "by": "mrngld", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You know what Codex/Cowork/etc can do really stunningly good these days?", "excerpt": "People seem to think it's all smoke and mirrors. IDK. My employer, in an industry as far removed from Silicon Valley as you can probably get, makes more and better use of it all the time. There's enormous amounts of work done every day in corporate America that amounts to \"I need X, but X involves some data from legacy system Y and legacy system Z, and that's going to take me an hour to glue together because our enti", "context": "works at a non-tech employer in corporate America", "use_case": "scripting data glue between legacy systems", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots"}]}, {"label": "Non-technical users", "summary": "Commenters say non-tech employees can use it more easily than coding tools.", "quotes": [{"id": 776882816, "item_id": 48555176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555176", "by": "basisword", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Cowork is something non-tech employees can make use of much easier than Cursor.", "excerpt": "Know a few companies that have moved from it fully to Claude. It\u2019s still early so the moving cost is low and Claude Cowork is something non-tech employees can make use of much easier than Cursor. I really don\u2019t see what Curor\u2019s value is longer term. Why pay a middle man?", "context": "", "use_case": "non-tech employee AI work", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "SpaceX Is Buying Cursor"}, {"id": 745504114, "item_id": 46594007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594007", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This sounds really interesting.", "excerpt": "This sounds really interesting. Perhaps this is the promise that Copilot was not. I'm really hoping that this gives people like my wife access to all the things I use Claude Code for. I use Claude Code for everything. I have a short script in ~/bin/ called ,cc that I launch that starts it in an appropriate folder with permissions and contexts set up: ~ tree ~/claude-workspaces -d /Users/george/claude-workspaces \u251c\u2500\u2500 c", "context": "", "use_case": "Claude Code-like assistant for non-developers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}, {"id": 801030513, "item_id": 50064407, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064407", "by": "rootusrootus", "date": "2026-10-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Now picture it running in Cowork instead of CC, and it would probably tell non-technical users what the real problem is.", "excerpt": "Okay, admittedly this is not necessarily a great test, but I decided to try it anyway. I loaded up Claude Code and then gave it that prompt. You're not stupid, and we'll figure it out. I'm taking a read-only look at the system now to see what's actually broken. Then it ran some commands, and came back with: The machine itself looks healthy, so whatever broke is more specific than \"everything\" and I need you to point ", "context": "", "use_case": "helping non-technical users", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"}]}, {"label": "Daily workflow", "summary": "Some users rely on it heavily and say it changed how they work.", "quotes": [{"id": 792317841, "item_id": 49519865, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519865", "by": "Quothling", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cowork changed the way we work", "excerpt": "I don't think they are opposite. We still don't let AI run anything we do. That being said, things have changed. 4 months ago I wouldn't touch the M365 Copilot thing if you paid me to, now it's basically the only AI I use professionally. Cowork changed the way we work, and I've previously spoken about how I think Microsoft sort of won the AI enterprise \"war\" by selling the tools and not the mode. If you'd asked me a ", "context": "works in NIS2 regulated sector", "use_case": "enforcing compliance policy for developers", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"}, {"id": 760968496, "item_id": 47560531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560531", "by": "spiderfarmer", "date": "2026-03-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have used Cowork so much over the last couple of months and I have no reason to switch.", "excerpt": "I have used Cowork so much over the last couple of months and I have no reason to switch. But I\u2019ll definitely give this a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenYak \u2013 An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"}, {"id": 761857248, "item_id": 47616078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616078", "by": "Rickielin", "date": "2026-04-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access", "excerpt": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access, and your data goes through their cloud. OpenYak is an open-source desktop agent that directly reads, writes, and manages files on your machine. 20+ built-in tools, 100+ models (or Ollama offline), BYOK, MCP support. All data stays local. Tauri v2 + Next.js + FastAPI + SQLite. macOS and Windows. AGPL-3.0. 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I use both and I mostly just guessed when to use Cowork.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"}, {"id": 792173040, "item_id": 49510815, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510815", "by": "bjackman", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "when I've done that I've felt this was the right choice", "excerpt": "It's funny coz it seemed like they also cloned the confusion. I don't really understand what Claude Cowork is. Sometimes I use it instead of plain Claude Chat for tasks that \"feel big\"? And when I've done that I've felt this was the right choice. But until I actually had that session up and running I would not be able to articulate what Cowork is or enumerate any specifics of how I expected it to behave. I just thoug", "context": "", "use_case": "big tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Understanding ChatGPT Work"}, {"id": 745721617, "item_id": 46607601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607601", "by": "kingkongjaffa", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Why would I use claude cowork instead of that?", "excerpt": "When I need to create something like a powerpoint or whatever I use claude code and invoke a claude skill that knows how to do it. Why would I use claude cowork instead of that?", "context": "", "use_case": "creating documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}]}, {"label": "Privacy", "summary": "One user says Anthropic refused to delete a session, and another notes data goes through Anthropic's cloud.", "quotes": [{"id": 783989504, "item_id": 48999344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999344", "by": "reilly3000", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Certainly not Anthropic after they refused to delete my Cowork session.", "excerpt": "As a US citizen I have domicile over the data and a legal system that has some claws. We tend to enforce and celebrate IP whereas China openly scoffs at its premise. Frankly I don\u2019t trust any of them. Certainly not Anthropic after they refused to delete my Cowork session. Certainly not OpenAI with their duplicity. I\u2019m a Google workspace subscriber so I use Gemini, but only with logging disabled and for throwaway sear", "context": "US citizen", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi Work"}, {"id": 761857248, "item_id": 47616078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616078", "by": "Rickielin", "date": "2026-04-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access", "excerpt": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access, and your data goes through their cloud. OpenYak is an open-source desktop agent that directly reads, writes, and manages files on your machine. 20+ built-in tools, 100+ models (or Ollama offline), BYOK, MCP support. All data stays local. Tauri v2 + Next.js + FastAPI + SQLite. macOS and Windows. AGPL-3.0. Ear", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop AI agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenYak \u2013 open-source desktop AI agent that works with your local files"}]}, {"label": "Security risk", "summary": "One commenter warns that an agent running with full privileges is risky.", "quotes": [{"id": 745570737, "item_id": 46598171, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598171", "by": "system2", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "this is probably the scariest use I can think of. An agent running with full privileges with no restriction.", "excerpt": "I use Claude 8+ hours per day. But this is probably the scariest use I can think of. An agent running with full privileges with no restriction. What can go wrong?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}]}, {"label": "UX", "summary": "One user switched away because features felt bolted on without thought to UX.", "quotes": [{"id": 781610865, "item_id": 48850679, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850679", "by": "neil_s", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Cowork felt like a bunch of features thrown in by engineers without thought to the UX.", "excerpt": "I had switched from Claude Cowork to OAI Codex a month ago. This seems like a rebranding and app merging to make it more obvious. And switching between the newly named \"ChatGPT Work\" vs \"ChatGPT Code\" mostly just seems to increase the verbosity of technical outputs, while using the same harness underneath. I switched because Cowork felt like a bunch of features thrown in by engineers without thought to the UX. Codex ", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic work", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT Work"}]}, {"label": "Platform limits", "summary": "It is locked to one model and has limited filesystem access.", "quotes": [{"id": 761857248, "item_id": 47616078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616078", "by": "Rickielin", "date": "2026-04-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access", "excerpt": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access, and your data goes through their cloud. OpenYak is an open-source desktop agent that directly reads, writes, and manages files on your machine. 20+ built-in tools, 100+ models (or Ollama offline), BYOK, MCP support. All data stays local. Tauri v2 + Next.js + FastAPI + SQLite. macOS and Windows. AGPL-3.0. 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I loaded up Claude Code and then gave it that prompt. You're not stupid, and we'll figure it out. I'm taking a read-only look at the system now to see what's actually broken. Then it ran some commands, and came back with: The machine itself looks healthy, so whatever broke is more specific than \"everything\" and I need you to point ", "context": "", "use_case": "helping non-technical users", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"}, {"id": 800780016, "item_id": 50048751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048751", "by": "nasmorn", "date": "2026-10-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude cowork could just do my monthly tax receipt collection and compare with my account better than the bookkeeper I pay for it.", "excerpt": "Also seems weird to me. Claude cowork could just do my monthly tax receipt collection and compare with my account better than the bookkeeper I pay for it. That is a very cross sectional problem", "context": "", "use_case": "tax receipt collection", "switched_from": "", "story": "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"}, {"id": 796629233, "item_id": 49789327, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49789327", "by": "teliskr", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use claude cowork to create email designs using data and content from our CMS", "excerpt": "I don't get excited about the directories listing all the MCPs that do all these random things. However, I used claude to create an MCP that is a gateway to our system and it's enabled some pretty helpful functionality for us. I use claude cowork to create email designs using data and content from our CMS, it can push accepted work straight into our system, evaluate content, and analyze results. All of that used to b", "context": "", "use_case": "email design from CMS content", "switched_from": "", "story": "MCP was always a bad idea?"}, {"id": 795716816, "item_id": 49732301, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49732301", "by": "evan_", "date": "2026-09-16", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use both and I mostly just guessed when to use Cowork.", "excerpt": "not once did I ever understand what the difference was between Claude Chat and Claude Cowork. I use both and I mostly just guessed when to use Cowork.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"}, {"id": 794035488, "item_id": 49627218, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627218", "by": "fnordpiglet", "date": "2026-09-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I\u2019ve desperately tried to use the Claude work, ChatGPT work, even OpenClaw, and I\u2019ve yet to find a meaningful use of such an assistant.", "excerpt": "I\u2019ve desperately tried to use the Claude work, ChatGPT work, even OpenClaw, and I\u2019ve yet to find a meaningful use of such an assistant. Maybe my life is too boring, but what I see here is a bunch of stuff that makes life more complicated. IF the things I use are well supported here, and IF I have manual repetitive tasks to delegate with them, it feels a bit like taking a nap while using FSD - I don\u2019t trust an LLM to ", "context": "", "use_case": "shopping for textbooks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Muse \u2013 Meta\u2019s personal AI agent"}, {"id": 792516656, "item_id": 49532291, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49532291", "by": "Quothling", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The main difference is that Cowork has access to files on a users one drive", "excerpt": "Are you purposely twisting things to fit a certain narrative? If you really want to go into it, I've previously talked about how we used AI tools provided to us by one of our major investors who do so for all the companies they are invested into. These were also Anthropic and OpenAI models. The main difference is that Cowork has access to files on a users one drive (and that we get a lot more control over what goes i", "context": "", "use_case": "company AI tooling", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"}, {"id": 792317841, "item_id": 49519865, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49519865", "by": "Quothling", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cowork changed the way we work", "excerpt": "I don't think they are opposite. We still don't let AI run anything we do. That being said, things have changed. 4 months ago I wouldn't touch the M365 Copilot thing if you paid me to, now it's basically the only AI I use professionally. Cowork changed the way we work, and I've previously spoken about how I think Microsoft sort of won the AI enterprise \"war\" by selling the tools and not the mode. If you'd asked me a ", "context": "works in NIS2 regulated sector", "use_case": "enforcing compliance policy for developers", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too"}, {"id": 792173040, "item_id": 49510815, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510815", "by": "bjackman", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "when I've done that I've felt this was the right choice", "excerpt": "It's funny coz it seemed like they also cloned the confusion. I don't really understand what Claude Cowork is. Sometimes I use it instead of plain Claude Chat for tasks that \"feel big\"? And when I've done that I've felt this was the right choice. But until I actually had that session up and running I would not be able to articulate what Cowork is or enumerate any specifics of how I expected it to behave. I just thoug", "context": "", "use_case": "big tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Understanding ChatGPT Work"}, {"id": 789415440, "item_id": 49338465, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338465", "by": "ghshephard", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I think I use about $30-$50/month.", "excerpt": "Everyone gets $125 / month budget (compared to the $5k/month people get for coding LLMS) - it's pretty rare for anyone to get even close - maybe some of the administrative assistant who do nothing but type into CoWork all day go over - I think I use about $30-$50/month.", "context": "company gives $125/month budget", "use_case": "knowledge work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"}, {"id": 788183456, "item_id": 49261466, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49261466", "by": "ghshephard", "date": "2026-08-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "CoWork is legit.", "excerpt": "Claude CoWork absolutely dominates - I use it continuously now when connecting to mail, calendar, jira, google docs - any type of knowledge work. Almost everyone I know (at work) who does \"Knowledge work\" type stuff (as opposed to coding) uses it as their primary pane-of-glass now. I have 15+ years of top 1 percentile knowledge using awk to process complex unstructured documents - and I don't even bother anymore - ju", "context": "15+ years of awk experience; uses it at work", "use_case": "knowledge work, data analysis, Jira updates", "switched_from": "awk", "story": "Manus will return to operating as an independent company"}, {"id": 783989504, "item_id": 48999344, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999344", "by": "reilly3000", "date": "2026-07-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Certainly not Anthropic after they refused to delete my Cowork session.", "excerpt": "As a US citizen I have domicile over the data and a legal system that has some claws. We tend to enforce and celebrate IP whereas China openly scoffs at its premise. Frankly I don\u2019t trust any of them. Certainly not Anthropic after they refused to delete my Cowork session. Certainly not OpenAI with their duplicity. I\u2019m a Google workspace subscriber so I use Gemini, but only with logging disabled and for throwaway sear", "context": "US citizen", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kimi Work"}, {"id": 783743505, "item_id": 48983969, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983969", "by": "shant_extry", "date": "2026-07-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Cowork for the planning", "excerpt": "Learning how to use documentation for/with AI has been the story of my last year+. I don't have the technical background you do but I've worked in product and project management, so I was never deep in code the way you've been. I think the journey of figuring out how to actually create with AI has been as interesting as what I'm able to create. I wish I had documented more of my lessons-learned the way you have. The ", "context": "product and project management background", "use_case": "planning and project mapping", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: I stopped fighting AI over-reliance and built a workflow around it"}, {"id": 783460896, "item_id": 48966306, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966306", "by": "intromert", "date": "2026-07-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The other day I used Claude Cowork to create a checklist for me so that I can safely re-install my laptop", "excerpt": "The other day I used Claude Cowork to create a checklist for me so that I can safely re-install my laptop... It went through all ssh configuration, apps, downloads, documents etc... Once I had the checklist, I asked it to do the backup itself, along with instructions to re-install/setup everything once I had the laptop re-installed. This was something I was procrastinating for too long already...", "context": "", "use_case": "laptop reinstall checklist and backup", "switched_from": "", "story": "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"}, {"id": 781610865, "item_id": 48850679, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850679", "by": "neil_s", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Cowork felt like a bunch of features thrown in by engineers without thought to the UX.", "excerpt": "I had switched from Claude Cowork to OAI Codex a month ago. This seems like a rebranding and app merging to make it more obvious. And switching between the newly named \"ChatGPT Work\" vs \"ChatGPT Code\" mostly just seems to increase the verbosity of technical outputs, while using the same harness underneath. I switched because Cowork felt like a bunch of features thrown in by engineers without thought to the UX. Codex ", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic work", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT Work"}, {"id": 781604769, "item_id": 48850298, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48850298", "by": "sulam", "date": "2026-07-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "getting pretty much the same results albeit without the sandboxing", "excerpt": "> The agent is more focused on coding than cowork / work I suspect this difference is pretty minimal. Before Cowork launched I was using Claude Code in the way that I use Cowork now and getting pretty much the same results albeit without the sandboxing (which is more of a hassle than not, TBH). OpenAI says in their announcement that the same is true for Codex, which doesn't surprise me at all. These agentic loops are", "context": "", "use_case": "agentic non-coding tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "ChatGPT Work"}, {"id": 779007153, "item_id": 48687947, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687947", "by": "Terretta", "date": "2026-06-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'd encourage you to play with what Anthropic is doing in Cowork.", "excerpt": "Check out self-coding harness `j` as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653476 A malleable coding agent app. Use Claude Code and Codex to build your projects and reshape y itself live. Back on your idea itself: Have you considered making this a first class hosted MCP plus enterprise-licensed plugin (which can contain an MCP) for Claude Cowork? A firm can do most of the ideas on your home page in Cowork if t", "context": "", "use_case": "white-collar workflows with plugins", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Appaca \u2013 AI Workspace for Operators"}, {"id": 778539137, "item_id": 48658696, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658696", "by": "mrngld", "date": "2026-06-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You know what Codex/Cowork/etc can do really stunningly good these days?", "excerpt": "People seem to think it's all smoke and mirrors. IDK. My employer, in an industry as far removed from Silicon Valley as you can probably get, makes more and better use of it all the time. There's enormous amounts of work done every day in corporate America that amounts to \"I need X, but X involves some data from legacy system Y and legacy system Z, and that's going to take me an hour to glue together because our enti", "context": "works at a non-tech employer in corporate America", "use_case": "scripting data glue between legacy systems", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots"}, {"id": 776882816, "item_id": 48555176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555176", "by": "basisword", "date": "2026-06-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Claude Cowork is something non-tech employees can make use of much easier than Cursor.", "excerpt": "Know a few companies that have moved from it fully to Claude. It\u2019s still early so the moving cost is low and Claude Cowork is something non-tech employees can make use of much easier than Cursor. I really don\u2019t see what Curor\u2019s value is longer term. Why pay a middle man?", "context": "", "use_case": "non-tech employee AI work", "switched_from": "Cursor", "story": "SpaceX Is Buying Cursor"}, {"id": 775269588, "item_id": 48454349, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454349", "by": "FireBeyond", "date": "2026-06-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "In Cowork the whole accumulated Obsidian folder becomes fully queryable", "excerpt": "Workflow: Built a meeting-intelligence pipeline that turns raw, error-prone transcripts into a structured, queryable knowledge base. Meetings get auto-transcribed by Krisp, whose speech recognition mangles the things I most need correct, like colleague names, customer names, internal product and architecture terms. I hand each transcript to Claude alongside a hand-built context document, and it works a fixed routine:", "context": "", "use_case": "querying meeting notes", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI"}, {"id": 764599121, "item_id": 47787445, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787445", "by": "anishgupta", "date": "2026-04-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used claude cowork more than openclaw", "excerpt": "The main thing why I started using it too late was the slop. it's in the end AI generated, yes it can take your tasks but i never felt in my personal use case how it can help me when it's just generating slop. I used claude cowork more than openclaw after trying once that too in a cloud container since I'm afraid of its security", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is anyone actually using OpenClaw?"}, {"id": 764317969, "item_id": 47769873, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769873", "by": "teucris", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I\u2019ve tried Cowork and Claude Code remote agents, only to find various bugs", "excerpt": "My only real disappointment with Claude is its flakiness with scheduling tasks. I have several Slack related tasks that I\u2019ve pretty much given up trying to automate - I\u2019ve tried Cowork and Claude Code remote agents, only to find various bugs with working with plugins and connectors. I guess I\u2019ll give this a try, but I don\u2019t have high hopes.", "context": "", "use_case": "scheduled Slack tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Routines"}, {"id": 764307137, "item_id": 47769196, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769196", "by": "eranation", "date": "2026-04-14", "stance": "compare", "quote": "tried it with non Claude Code scheduled tasks (CoWork) not as good", "excerpt": "I've been using it for a while (it was just called \"Scheduled\", so I assume this is an attempt to rebrand it?) It was a bit buggy, but it seems to work better now. Some use cases that worked for me: 1. Go over a slack channel used for feedback for an internal tool, triage, open issues, fix obvious ones, reply with the PR link. Some devs liked it, some freaked out. I kept it. 2. Surprisingly non code related - give me", "context": "", "use_case": "scheduled tasks", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code Routines"}, {"id": 761857248, "item_id": 47616078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616078", "by": "Rickielin", "date": "2026-04-02", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access", "excerpt": "I use Claude Cowork and similar tools daily. They're good, but locked to one model, limited filesystem access, and your data goes through their cloud. OpenYak is an open-source desktop agent that directly reads, writes, and manages files on your machine. 20+ built-in tools, 100+ models (or Ollama offline), BYOK, MCP support. All data stays local. Tauri v2 + Next.js + FastAPI + SQLite. macOS and Windows. AGPL-3.0. Ear", "context": "", "use_case": "desktop AI agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenYak \u2013 open-source desktop AI agent that works with your local files"}, {"id": 760968496, "item_id": 47560531, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560531", "by": "spiderfarmer", "date": "2026-03-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have used Cowork so much over the last couple of months and I have no reason to switch.", "excerpt": "I have used Cowork so much over the last couple of months and I have no reason to switch. But I\u2019ll definitely give this a try.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenYak \u2013 An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"}, {"id": 758163712, "item_id": 47385232, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47385232", "by": "spiderfarmer", "date": "2026-03-15", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Claude Cowork to talk to my (remote) CMS over MCP to continually improve all content in my website.", "excerpt": "I use Claude Cowork to talk to my (remote) CMS over MCP to continually improve all content in my website. If I find a new nugget of interesting information, I tell it to improve my content with it. I created lots of tools to help it do things that would require multiple calls in a pure, basic REST api. Plus you can describe lots of guidelines right in the MCP instructions. I hear everyone talking about skills, but I ", "context": "", "use_case": "improving website content via CMS", "switched_from": "", "story": "MCP Is Dead; Long Live MCP"}, {"id": 756637392, "item_id": 47289837, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47289837", "by": "johngossman", "date": "2026-03-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I had Claude Cowork write a history book.", "excerpt": "This verification problem is general. As an experiment, I had Claude Cowork write a history book. I chose as subject a biography of Paolo Sarpi, a Venetian thinker most active in the early 17th century. I chose the subject because I know something about him, but am far from expert, because many of the sources in Italian, in which I am a beginner, and because many of the sources are behind paywalls, which does not mea", "context": "", "use_case": "writing a history book", "switched_from": "", "story": "Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code"}, {"id": 745721617, "item_id": 46607601, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607601", "by": "kingkongjaffa", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Why would I use claude cowork instead of that?", "excerpt": "When I need to create something like a powerpoint or whatever I use claude code and invoke a claude skill that knows how to do it. Why would I use claude cowork instead of that?", "context": "", "use_case": "creating documents", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}, {"id": 745570737, "item_id": 46598171, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46598171", "by": "system2", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "this is probably the scariest use I can think of. An agent running with full privileges with no restriction.", "excerpt": "I use Claude 8+ hours per day. But this is probably the scariest use I can think of. An agent running with full privileges with no restriction. What can go wrong?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}, {"id": 745544624, "item_id": 46596539, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596539", "by": "mrcwinn", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "This product barely works. It can't connect to the browser extension and when I share folders for it to access, nothing happens.", "excerpt": "This product barely works. It can't connect to the browser extension and when I share folders for it to access, nothing happens. I love early previews but maybe one more week?", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}, {"id": 745504114, "item_id": 46594007, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594007", "by": "arjie", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This sounds really interesting.", "excerpt": "This sounds really interesting. Perhaps this is the promise that Copilot was not. I'm really hoping that this gives people like my wife access to all the things I use Claude Code for. I use Claude Code for everything. I have a short script in ~/bin/ called ,cc that I launch that starts it in an appropriate folder with permissions and contexts set up: ~ tree ~/claude-workspaces -d /Users/george/claude-workspaces \u251c\u2500\u2500 c", "context": "", "use_case": "Claude Code-like assistant for non-developers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"}]}