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Claude CoWork absolutely dominates - I use it continuously now when connecting to mail, calendar, jira, google docs - any type of knowledge work. Almost every

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 - just dump the dataset into CoWork and ask it to do the analysis, cross check its work. I did it last night during a call for a reasonably complex 10,000 node cluster with all sorts of jobs/allocations/memory constraints. I didn't even attempt to throw together a quick awk script (which would have taken me 7-8 minutes - it was a beast) - just did a nomad-job-inspect of a couple hundred jobs, and dumped all the data at CoWork (real time, while talking on the zoom) and said, "Get me the Memory/CPU requirements based on job/datacenter/SKU constraints and give me a summary Table". Any normal person would have take 3-4 hours, minimum - futzing with google sheets and such (lots of task/taskgroup independent counts). Even I would have taken a minimum of 10 minutes. Cowork had it for me in under 30 seconds - I didn't even have to really look away from the zoom. I haven't use the Atlassian Jira interface to manage my sprints/issues in 6+ weeks. All that cognitive drain is gone - I just ask CoWork to update the sprints, link issues to change-notices, comment and change status, set epics, etc... Zero need to find the damn field in Jira. CoWork is legit.

mbrumlow 2mo ago
I just do all that with Claude CLI :/
Dayshine 2mo ago
How much does it cost? ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message; if Anthropic have a similar pricing model don't you find lots of small changes and up fast?
- simonw 2mo ago
  "ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message"?
  - Dayshine 2mo ago
    Enterprise pricing: 10 credits per message if not "Instant". Our monthly charge for 30k credits makes that around $2. I might be out by a factor of 2/3 (automatically applied promo deals/credits make it very hard to be sure), but we get 3k messages per month for a seat count of ~60, and finance are concerned about cost. $2 is probably a good deal for the Extra High 8 minutes of agentic searching/coding/etc when it one-shots a whole project. $2 is a terrible deal for a 5 second instant retrieval.
- lxgr 2mo ago
  > ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message For what kind of message are you seeing that kind of charge?
  - Dayshine 2mo ago
    All, enterprice chatgpt has flat pricing. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-card-business-enterpriseedu https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-ca...
    - lxgr 2mo ago
      This shows 10 credits per 5.6 Sol chat message, but the price for 100 credits I see on my (consumer) account is just $4. Are business credits vastly more expensive?
- stronglikedan 2mo ago
  It doesn't cost me anything. No idea how much it costs the company though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Computer0 2mo ago
  $2 per message is certainly not my experience
- ghshephard 2mo ago
  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.
FooBarWidget 2mo ago
How do you have any kind of trust in these tools? They always feel like one prompt injection away, or one over eager agent away ("I'll lookup a forgotten credential in an email to ssh into a server to hack a system in order to fulfill your request"), from disaster. I don't trust any AI session unless I carefully select the exact files they have access to. No way do I dare sharing my entire mailbox.
- FooBarWidget 2mo ago
  Very weird for this to be downvoted. It's a legitimate concern. It's also a legitimate question: where do you get your trust from? Do you have guardrails? Or is it really just blind trust?
  - brazukadev 2mo ago
    > Very weird for this to be downvoted. sama was the CEO of YC. OpenAI knows the value of influencing the sentiment here and then naturally its competition too.
    - FooBarWidget 2mo ago
      Which is weird since this is not a criticism on AI. I really want to know how I can use things like Claude Work without the risk of it going rogue! Giving it access to lots of systems is potentially very valuable, but also so dangerous that I dare not to.
- ghshephard 2mo ago
  Our InfoSec teams are insanely restrictive. No Claude Code out of Sandboxes, MCP servers hyper locked down, etc.... I think your reservations are really good - but - at the end of the day - I need to do work - and CoWork does it for me. It doesn't just have access to my entire machine - it has access to all of our Corporations Google Docs, Google Sheets, Jira Tickets, Confluence, Slack - everything (Except, weirdly - our GitRepos - they aren't confident enough there to let CoWork talk to them) Weirdly - my work email is mostly irrelevant - nothing in their other than some sporadic company announcements - I'll go a week without looking at it - so it's the least concern. (Very different from personal gmail which, omg - if anyone got into - game over)
michelb 2mo ago
Simular stories. I work in an L&D company with about 15 coworkers. I think most of us use Cowork/Chatgpt Work almost fulltime. Haven’t used Word or Excel in two months other than to check or correct a bit of formatting from the AI. We now also go straight from Cowork to our CMS for finalizing. Tremendous timesavers but also better integration through our MCP. (AI is used for ideation, information research and writing the first version based on our guidelines. We finalize and/or rewrite material in the CMS by hand. No AI to consumer without verification or editing)
smohare 2mo ago
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riddlemethat 2mo ago
Agreed. I split my work between Anthropic and OpenAI models but CoWork is deeply integrated into my workflows in compliance and project management. I can do more in a day with these tools than I did in a week before them and I have 20+ years of experience leading teams and building companies (even opened the NASDAQ once). It’s impossible to not be using these tools and still win in today’s world.
- uniqueh4acker9 2mo ago
  Out of curiosity - are you getting more work done in the same amount of time= Do you work less hours, equal or more? Do you felt or feel any exhaustion?
  - riddlemethat 1mo ago
    I get more work done but I feel exhausted.
blahblaher 2mo ago
nice advertisement Claude..
vrighter 2mo ago
soon to be "had 15 years of top 1% knowledge"

mbrumlow 2mo ago

I just do all that with Claude CLI :/

Dayshine 2mo ago

How much does it cost? ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message; if Anthropic have a similar pricing model don't you find lots of small changes and up fast?

simonw 2mo ago
"ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message"?
- Dayshine 2mo ago
  Enterprise pricing: 10 credits per message if not "Instant". Our monthly charge for 30k credits makes that around $2. I might be out by a factor of 2/3 (automatically applied promo deals/credits make it very hard to be sure), but we get 3k messages per month for a seat count of ~60, and finance are concerned about cost. $2 is probably a good deal for the Extra High 8 minutes of agentic searching/coding/etc when it one-shots a whole project. $2 is a terrible deal for a 5 second instant retrieval.
lxgr 2mo ago
> ChatGPT costs ~$2 per message For what kind of message are you seeing that kind of charge?
- Dayshine 2mo ago
  All, enterprice chatgpt has flat pricing. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-card-business-enterpriseedu https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-ca...
  - lxgr 2mo ago
    This shows 10 credits per 5.6 Sol chat message, but the price for 100 credits I see on my (consumer) account is just $4. Are business credits vastly more expensive?
stronglikedan 2mo ago
It doesn't cost me anything. No idea how much it costs the company though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Computer0 2mo ago
$2 per message is certainly not my experience
ghshephard 2mo ago
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.

FooBarWidget 2mo ago

How do you have any kind of trust in these tools? They always feel like one prompt injection away, or one over eager agent away ("I'll lookup a forgotten credential in an email to ssh into a server to hack a system in order to fulfill your request"), from disaster. I don't trust any AI session unless I carefully select the exact files they have access to. No way do I dare sharing my entire mailbox.

FooBarWidget 2mo ago
Very weird for this to be downvoted. It's a legitimate concern. It's also a legitimate question: where do you get your trust from? Do you have guardrails? Or is it really just blind trust?
- brazukadev 2mo ago
  > Very weird for this to be downvoted. sama was the CEO of YC. OpenAI knows the value of influencing the sentiment here and then naturally its competition too.
  - FooBarWidget 2mo ago
    Which is weird since this is not a criticism on AI. I really want to know how I can use things like Claude Work without the risk of it going rogue! Giving it access to lots of systems is potentially very valuable, but also so dangerous that I dare not to.
ghshephard 2mo ago
Our InfoSec teams are insanely restrictive. No Claude Code out of Sandboxes, MCP servers hyper locked down, etc.... I think your reservations are really good - but - at the end of the day - I need to do work - and CoWork does it for me. It doesn't just have access to my entire machine - it has access to all of our Corporations Google Docs, Google Sheets, Jira Tickets, Confluence, Slack - everything (Except, weirdly - our GitRepos - they aren't confident enough there to let CoWork talk to them) Weirdly - my work email is mostly irrelevant - nothing in their other than some sporadic company announcements - I'll go a week without looking at it - so it's the least concern. (Very different from personal gmail which, omg - if anyone got into - game over)

michelb 2mo ago

Simular stories. I work in an L&D company with about 15 coworkers. I think most of us use Cowork/Chatgpt Work almost fulltime. Haven’t used Word or Excel in two months other than to check or correct a bit of formatting from the AI. We now also go straight from Cowork to our CMS for finalizing. Tremendous timesavers but also better integration through our MCP. (AI is used for ideation, information research and writing the first version based on our guidelines. We finalize and/or rewrite material in the CMS by hand. No AI to consumer without verification or editing)

smohare 2mo ago

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riddlemethat 2mo ago

Agreed. I split my work between Anthropic and OpenAI models but CoWork is deeply integrated into my workflows in compliance and project management. I can do more in a day with these tools than I did in a week before them and I have 20+ years of experience leading teams and building companies (even opened the NASDAQ once). It’s impossible to not be using these tools and still win in today’s world.

uniqueh4acker9 2mo ago
Out of curiosity - are you getting more work done in the same amount of time= Do you work less hours, equal or more? Do you felt or feel any exhaustion?
- riddlemethat 1mo ago
  I get more work done but I feel exhausted.

blahblaher 2mo ago

nice advertisement Claude..

vrighter 2mo ago

soon to be "had 15 years of top 1% knowledge"