Care to Cowork with Claude?

Claude Cowork, released as a research preview for Claude Max users, brings Claude Code-like agentic capabilities to a Mac app, opening up autonomous agent use to non-technical users. The article notes that the first iteration took 1.5 weeks to build, according to Felix from the Anthropic technical team. It argues that Cowork lacks the composability of CLI-based tools like Claude Code, notably the ability to programmatically invoke agents, which it cites as the reason "Ralphing" is impossible in Cowork. The author also suggests that coding's determinism explains Claude Code's strength and that other domains may progress more slowly.