First Look: Claude Cowork Is the Real Deal

Anthropic just dropped something I've been waiting for: Claude Cowork. It's basically Claude Code without the terminal—all that agentic, go-do-anything-on-my-computer power, but with a proper interface.

I've been using Claude Code for notes, research, file management, and even script execution for a while now. Turns out Anthropic noticed a lot of people doing the same thing, so they built this.

In this video, I walk you through two real demos:

DEMO 1: Mythology Notes
I pointed Cowork at a semester's worth of Greek mythology class notes—PDFs, handwritten notes, the whole chaotic folder. Asked it to understand everything, trace Zeus's family lineage across lectures, and build me a progressive study guide. Then I had it use the Chrome extension to open ChatGPT and generate silly mythological illustrations for each lecture. In parallel. While I watched.

DEMO 2: Personalized Marketing Emails
Gave it a sales CSV with 80 purchases from 44 customers. Asked it to draft personalized emails about a new winter hoodie—segmenting by previous purchases, mentioning their history, and creating individual files per email. It asked clarifying questions, replanned when I added requirements mid-task, and delivered exactly what I described.

What makes this different:
Works at the folder level, not just chat
Creates actual files you can use
Can control Chrome through the Claude extension
Lets you send updates while it's working
Runs for hours without babysitting

The catch: Mac-only for now, Max Plan required, and it runs in a sandboxed VM so it can't reach everywhere Claude Code can.

My take: This is a first-draft tool. Don't hand it high-stakes work and walk away. But for exploration, tedious file tasks, and getting a smart first pass? It's excellent.

If you're a Max subscriber with a Mac, it's right there in Claude Desktop, third tab. Give it a whirl.

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00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Claude desktop
02:02 - Demo 1: Mythology class
09:49 - Demo 2: Personal touch
13:38 - Warnings
14:59 - Conclusion