Claude CoWork: how task scheduling shifts the focus | Post 5 of 6

In previous posts we looked at why CoWork is so good at doing work. Scheduling this work shifts the focus away from the AI tool entirely: an interesting side effect.

The tool, in a sense, disappears and everything is about the work. As an example, imagine you write a weekly report. You set up a schedule for CoWork to run your weekly report skill and email it to you on Monday morning.

Now that you don't actually need to use the tool any more the sole focus is on the quality of the report. Maybe you need to tweak it before you send it on. But your time is all about the work, not the AI tool. It's an interesting shift.

For this to become the norm, you need to have really good output from the AI tool (and I really think we are increasingly close to that), and you need to know how to use these tools to get the most from them.

To be fair, ChatGPT has had scheduled tasks for some time. But they seem to run in the same chat context, which gets so long that my weekly research task is really hard to read now. I would rather get CoWork to produce a research file in my analysis folder. And send me an email with interesting findings.

• In this series I am working through my own experiences with Claude CoWork: why it feels so different in my daily work and what about it is so unique.
• CoWork is the first of probably many such Agentic AI tools, and as the saying goes: this is the worst they will ever be.