Today on the AI Daily Brief, Anthropics' new co-work tool is clawed code for everybody else,

and today we're talking about why it's potentially a very big deal.

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that really deserves its own show. And so that's what we've done. We will be back with our

normal format tomorrow. But for now, let's dig in and talk about Claude Co-work.

One of the universally recognized truths among people in the AI industry is that the single

worst-named product is not somehow chat GPT or GPT 52 Pro QXYZ or the totally

out of left field nano banana pro but is in fact Claude code.

And the reason that Claude code is such a bad name in some ways is that the code part

of Claude code in fact distracts from the full possibilities that the tool actually represents. Now, all it takes is a quick look at any especially non-technical person who has really dug into Claude Code to see why it's so much more powerful than it seems just from that name alone. Just a couple of days ago on Sunday, Nikiel Krishnan wrote, I've spent the last 48 hours in Claude Code. As a non-technical person, it's basically unlocked three very big things for me. One, the ability to interact with APIs generally. Again, as a non-technical person, one of the big barriers to running the business has been touching APIs. For example, what you can do in Stripe in the non-developer portal versus through the APIs is night and day. Two, the ability to thread things together. Another issue has been threading several different projects we work with together to do cohesive tasks. Zapier gets you part of the way for triggers, but Claude code lets me do way more complex things that touches multiple things simultaneously. Three, run something regularly. Being able to set a script and run it regularly with this level of ease is a game changer. In about an hour, I set up a daily email to myself that tells me the top three emails I need to respond to, based on a priority scoring system we made together that pulls data from a few different places. I know I'm late to this and I'm probably doing things poorly, so it'd be nice to me, but it's been really awesome to dive into this. Back in October, Lenny Richitsky of Lenny's newsletter and Lenny's podcast wrote a piece called Everyone Should Be Using Claude Cod Code where he wrote, and I quote, a few weeks ago I finally started playing around with Claude Code and holy crap, we've all been sleeping on it. The key is to forget that it's Claude Code, and instead think of it as Claude Local or Claude Agent. It's essentially a super intelligent AI running locally, able to do stuff directly on your computer, from organizing your files and folders to enhancing image quality, brainstorming domain name, summarizing customer calls, creating linear tickets, and as you'll see below, so much more. Now from there, he curated 50 of the most creative ways that non-technical people in his audience were using Claude Code.

Point being that the non-technical folks who have spent the time to actually go figure out

this technology have come away, blown away, and feeling like they are in a fundamentally

different era of AI assistance where they really have a capable agent at their beck and call.

But poor Nekeel, man, 691 likes 111,000 views, only to have all that work just two days later,

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