How No-Coders Can Use Claude Cowork

There is a new tool by Claude. It's called Claude Co-work. And it's going to help you with any tasks you have apparently, which in this case uh you what what do we see? We see create a file, crunch data, make prototype, uh prep for the day, organize files, send a message. So like 50 million uh views almost check Google calendar and you know it opens the the tab. Does does it do it all or like how does that work? The Chrome extension. Okay. Ah, okay. Gotcha. Because it can get scary to the level of access that you can give these tools. Anyway, so here they ask it to organize the files. And this is what is very interesting to me because I I have I'm not very organized and I have some older hard drives that are very unorganized and I would like to organize them but I don't know like yeah this is kind of interesting how it does it documents photos very cleaning it it cleans it up very uh nicely and tidy. Uh have you tried it? No I've not I've not tried it yet. Um I mean in in summary I would describe this as clawed code for normies right? Yeah, I can I can already do this all with cool code. I can already do this with core code, right? Ah, okay. Interesting. I can already do this. I didn't know that. And in fact, yesterday I guess I understand. Yeah, I had all my hard drives out. And so I I use Screen Studio to record all my screen sharing videos that I do on my personal channel, right? And I wanted to move the screen studio file into the folder that was associated with the video that it was doing because it saves it in a separate folder. And I told Warp, say, "Look at the name of this Screen Studio file. Do a fuzzy search inside of this folder. If you find something, let me know and then I'll decide whether I want you to move it into that folder or not." And it wrote a bash script and went through it and and then it would ask me, we found these three folders that it might belong to. which one do you want to do or do you want to skip it? And literally like I'm a coder. I don't work is not for me. It's for people that it's called code for normies. Interesting. Okay. Yeah. And I think it introduces or further exemplifies the seismic shift we're seeing not only in software development but also in normies where we're starting to think about what can we build what can we do what systems can we build to get micro jobs done not you know we don't need to build a SAS product to help us you know build a pipeline system for this that and the other we just want to clean our desktop how can I do that more efficient ly organize my files into, you know, categorize them in certain ways and then put them into folders. Be a bit more specific about them rather than dragging and dropping and doing. We're we're thinking more about how we can use software dayto-day on really small tasks to help get our job done that will never see the light of day that we'll just scrap after, you know, once it's been used. Just use one. Um, uh, Theo released a video today, uh, talking about we're build, he's building software that is literally going to be used once and then you throw it away. So, devs are thinking like this and I think Anthropica are trying to make the the workforce think like this, hence codework. And did you know they built it in a week and a half using claw code? That is Yeah, that is actually very interesting. And Claude Code wrote 100% of it. Yeah, 100%. So, that is insane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, it's really cool. And I, you know, I made a video a few weeks ago and I asked my brother, "If you could build any app, what would you build?" And he gave me an idea. And yes, you you couldn't do what he wanted with with co-work for sure. But it was beautiful to give someone that power, that superpower to say you can build your own software to get just stupid little things done. Um, like what? And I'm getting more and more stupid things little little stupid things done from every day, you know, like the example I gave with uh like the drink. Yeah. Thing. Yeah. Like I I want to have it like when my friends come over and you know, I want to have a list of who wants what and their favorites, their comments on it, and like star ratings. And I want to to have like a nice thing like when they come by. And I'm already pretty sure it will be much better than what restaurants and bars have currently. Yeah, probably. Probably like like people who think like there won't be any software to be written. I I I think they haven't seen they they haven't gotten out to see like how bad the software situation is everywhere. Like we have the best and it's still like quite buggy, right? Yeah, we have the best like the Mac and the everything in the on the web and everything, but if you look at other industry industries and other jobs and like the software that they use, a lot of it is from the I don't know. It's from the '9s. It's it's old. It's it's really bad. Um, it has no UX anyway. So yeah, it's fun to see all of these being done with cloud code and things similar to that. Yeah. Yeah. And I think it's only going to get more and more prevalent. People just again not thinking about it. Just I need this again. I just needed to organize all my hard drives. I asked AI to build the script, but that's all the coworker is doing is building a a script that will run all this moving of files, comparing files and whatever. This is more of a conversational aspect where it can actually give you feedback and what I mean mine can I can ask it to like um so yeah it's it's really cool. Um so this is just I know we're continuing on this conversation but this is what I've talked about in the past UI for AI. We are seeing more and more UI for AI. Um, and I see this also in um, cursor. When I use the plan mode, I pretty much always say ask me, ask me, ask me stuff, give me ideas. Um, here here are my ideas, but like use it as a seed and give me more. Right? And then it comes back with like a list of selection. So previously I had to type in now I can se literally select the things that uh the options that it's giving me and I can always you know add stuff to the chat but I'm seeing more UI for AI and I like that. Yeah, it's cool. This is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.