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Lin Qiao: Collaborative AI tools define the current market shift
“I think last year is the year of coding, and this year is the year of co-work.”
AI tools have eliminated raw coding as the primary software engineering bottleneck
“And that's the shift that, you know, like we're seeing with cloud code and coworkers is Coding is no longer the bottleneck.”
Shipper: All knowledge work will occur within desktop AI agent surfaces
“Whoever's in the lead, it feels very obvious to me that all of the work that you do is going to be in one of those surfaces”
Cherny: Claude Code and Claude Cowork Were Entirely Written by Claude Code
“QuadCode is a hundred percent written by QuadCode. Cowork is a hundred percent written by QuadCode.”
Cherny: New AI Users Are Often More Ambitious Than Veteran Users
“I think for people that have kind of grown up with these products and they've seen previous versions, they might not be as ambitious as they could, but for people that are new to the products, I often see them using quad code and cowork for things that I would…”
Wu: Claude Code is for code outputs, Cowork handles non-code tasks
“So the way that I split the products in my mind is if I'm building something where the output is code, I'll use code code or desktop or code code on mobile. And if the output is anything that's not code, I'll use co-work for it.”
Cat Wu: Scaling AI agent fleets will shift execution from local machines to remote cloud
“At that point, you're probably not going to run everything locally on your machine anymore. There's just like not enough RAM to do it.
And so we're thinking about.
How do we make it easier for you to manage all these?
These will probably run remotely.”
Gaskill: OpenClaw is among the hardest agent harnesses to learn; Cowork is easiest
“I would say that OpenClaw is probably, like, one of the hardest to learn and set up of these harnesses. I would say Cowork is probably the easiest.”
O'Laughlin: Claude Code tools will become baseline for information work in 24 months
“I would argue what we'll see in the 24 month view, it will be a base level, I think. I think. Cloud code, co-work, whatever is going to be a base level of all information work very soon.”
Cherny: Anthropic's Cowork agent handles all project management for his team
“All of my project management for the team co-work does all of it. It's like syncing stuff between spreadsheets and messaging people on Slack and email and all this kind of stuff.”
Cherny: Anthropic built its Cowork AI agent in 10 days using Claude
“And so over 10 days, they just completely used quad code to build it. And, you know, co-workers actually, there's this very sophisticated security system that's built in, and essentially these guardrails to make sure that the model kind of does the right thing…”
Cherny: Anthropic's Cowork agent is growing much faster than Claude Code did
“But like I said, it's just growing much faster than Quadco did in the early days. So I think it's starting to break through a bit.”
Anthropic evaluated Cowork against Lenny Rachitsky's 50 tasks, shipping at 48 passes
“So we actually, one of our PMs used that as a way to evaluate Cowork before we released it. And I think at the point where we hit where Cowork was able to do like, 48 out of the 50, they were like, okay, it's pretty good.”
O'Laughlin: Consumer GUIs Like Cowork and Codex Will Drive Agent Adoption
“That's why Cowork and Codex are gonna, like, probably be what actually happens. I think it's really fun to, like, play around in the, like, whatever, one percent adopter, and I'm really enjoying it, but I just don't think Like, yeah, it's gonna be co-worker Co…”