Claude Cowork released this week, and the concept seems genuinely useful. I think a lot of people are going to love it once they get their hands on it.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get it working yet. Something’s off with my local environment, and I’m not entirely sure what. Claude Desktop sometimes throws up a warning asking if I want to download Node and I usually say no, but this time I said yes. Whether that’s related to my issues, I honestly don’t know. I did submit a bug report though, so hopefully that helps.

Here’s the thing that really impresses me: Anthropic noticed a trend and shipped a major beta feature in about 10 days.

That’s remarkable turnaround for something this substantial. Even if it’s not working perfectly for everyone yet (hi, that’s me), seeing that kind of responsiveness from a company is genuinely exciting.

I’m confident they’ll get it sorted before it leaves beta. These things take time, and beta means beta.

I have explored using the CLI agents outside of pure coding workflows and so I think there’s a lot more flexibility there than you might expect.

For now, I’m watching from the sidelines, waiting for my environment issues to sort themselves out.