Jan 16
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Anthropic just dropped Claude Cowork—essentially Claude Code for everyone, not just engineers—and we got to chat about it with a product engineer at Anthropic who helped build it. In this live Vibe Check, Dan Shipper and Kieran Klaassen explore the new interface together, testing what works (and what doesn't) in real time. Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg joins midway through to explain the philosophy behind Cowork's design: why it separates "Tasks" from "Chats," how the queue system lets you send messages while the agent is working, and what "agent-native" architecture means in practice. They also dig into Skills—Claude's prompt system that lets you customize how it works—and the Chrome connector for browser automation. This is a raw, unfiltered first look at what might be the future of how knowledge workers interact with AI: async workflows instead of turn-by-turn chat. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Check out Dan's guide to building agent-native applications: https://every.to/guides/agent-native To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper 00:01:00 - What is Claude Cowork 00:02:36 - First demo: competitor analysis 00:03:33 - Email drafting that sounds like me 00:06:18 - Calendar audit running for an hour 00:07:39 - Book taxonomy demo 00:08:42 - PostHog analytics via Chrome browsing 00:14:36 - Chat vs Code vs Cowork: when to use what 00:31:06 - Felix from Anthropic joins 00:36:39 - Why they built it in a week and a half 00:37:57 - Design decision: why a separate tab 00:43:57 - Skills as the primary hackable surface 00:49:36 - Agent-native architecture principles 00:56:57 - The origin story of skills at Anthropic 01:03:00 - Our final rating