--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Vibe Check: Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for the Rest of Us' description: >- 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. 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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 canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md' channel: everyinc updated: '2026-10-24T01:05:45.144Z' language: null children: [] videoId: oPBN-QIfLaY durationSeconds: 5565 publishedAt: '2026-01-13T18:25:24.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 11 endSeconds: 92 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=11' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 348 endSeconds: 430 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=348' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 102 endSeconds: 215 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=102' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 226 endSeconds: 338 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=226' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 348 endSeconds: 430 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=348' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 440 endSeconds: 574 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=440' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 440 endSeconds: 574 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=440' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 585 endSeconds: 666 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=585' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 879 endSeconds: 891 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=879' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 1239 endSeconds: 1339 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=1239' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 2118 endSeconds: 2218 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=2118' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 2630 endSeconds: 2709 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=2630' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 2922 endSeconds: 3014 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=2922' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 3312 endSeconds: 3322 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=3312' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 3433 endSeconds: 3443 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=3433' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 2719 endSeconds: 2809 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=2719' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 2911 endSeconds: 2922 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=2911' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 2311 endSeconds: 2322 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=2311' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 4471 endSeconds: 4587 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=4471' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 4598 endSeconds: 4686 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=4598' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 4144 endSeconds: 4249 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=4144' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 4260 endSeconds: 4357 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=4260' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 22 text: null startSeconds: 3900 endSeconds: 4033 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=3900' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 23 text: null startSeconds: 5160 endSeconds: 5253 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=5160' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 24 text: null startSeconds: 1665 endSeconds: 1777 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=1665' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 25 text: null startSeconds: 1103 endSeconds: 1113 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY?t=1103' heldReason: rights --- # Vibe Check: Claude Cowork Is Claude Code for the Rest of Us 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 Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/oPBN-QIfLaY · Channel: [Every](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.