This poor track record makes Anthropic’s latest agent, Claude Cowork, a nice surprise. Last year, Anthropic nurtured a cult following for its Claude Code tool among developers who loved its ability to understand codebases and run commands, with tech staffers across San Francisco using it for their work seemingly all the time. “We tried a bunch of different ideas to see what form factor would make sense for a less technical audience that doesn't want to use a terminal,” says Boris Cherny, Anthropic’s head of Claude Code. For the past two months, Cherny has written all of his code with AI. The Cowork tab appears next to the Chat and Code tabs in the Claude app for macOS.