A few days ago, Anthropic released computer use for Claude Cowork and Claude Code. The feature allows the AI to do almost everything on your computer by itself. This includes the creation and testing ...

I’ve been running my homelab on an 8-year-old laptop as a bare-metal Debian server. I rarely interacted with it directly, though. At my desk, I used my PC, and everywhere else, I relied on my MacBook.

I used Claude Cowork to automate a workflow, and the result was remarkably effective, but it exposed four drawbacks.

So there I was, sitting in front of my Mac mini with the Claude app on my screen, waiting to do my bidding. With a fair amount of trepidation, I’d granted Claude permission to take control of my Mac ...