Cowork

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I used Claude CoWork to build a business plan for a new consumer offering using expired patents”

  POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2026-08-13

• “Cowork felt like a bunch of features thrown in by engineers without thought to the UX”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “I've loved using Cowork recently for sourcing decisions. Things where seemingly everyone's out of stock or questionably reputable, just let Cowork spin for 20 minutes, find the best new and best used options that meet your requirements, probably also suggesting a different item that does the job and is available for cheap.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-09

• “Cowork/Claude Desktop itself is also quite a frustrating product. There's no native audit log unless you basically wire up your own with the API & a log aggregator. You can't selectively enable Claude Code access per team member, it's all or nothing. Some of the MCP connections (like QuickBooks Online) don't do RBAC at all, it's all or nothing for every user in the team.”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-23

• “if you ever dared to use cowork, only once, will run a 2GB VM on app start, no f's given. at all.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-22

• “I started with dashboard artifacts in Cowork but they got too big”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Reddit · 2026-06-20

• “In Cowork the whole accumulated Obsidian folder becomes fully queryable rather than merely searchable — instead of grep-ing for a keyword, I can ask questions that reason across months of meetings”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “it had like 500 hours allocated for what I did in a week with cowork, and my product is actually on secure vnet network with Azure identity security with both a test and a production environment delivering actual data. Cowork even made the damn powerpoint slideshows for decision makers.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-07

• “Cowork which runs on Opus 4.7 which was better than the alternative we have available”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-23

• “What is then starting to get quite powerful for me is moving from full text search of my meeting notes in Obsidian (I'm a PM in a lot of meetings), but I can point Cowork to the Obsidian notes folder (because they're all Markdown) and start doing rich "querying" of it”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-11