Saturday Sessions: Claude Claude Claude

Hey,

Well.

Hmm.

Weird time.

So….by the time you are reading this Saturday morning the Pentagon may have dropped the ban hammer on Anthropic (makers of Claude).

There’s an ongoing spat between the two of them and potentially Anthropic could get blacklisted from working with US companies. Which would be…a problem.

So…that’s a little worrying to say the least! I’m hoping it’ll turn out alright and that Anthropic’s “no” to the Pentagon doesn’t end them…

I’ll certainly be covering this a LOT more next week on the lives I’m sure.

In the meantime… Claude Cowork!

Yo.

I’m late to the party with this one. Mainly because I use Claude Code, the “technical” big brother to Cowork. I tried Cowork out a few times and it never really clicked as something useful.

Until this week. And now I’m going to be insufferable and badger everyone to use it.

Basically Claude Cowork is Claude Code for less technical people. BUT, and this is a big butt and I cannot lie, it can work off your computer and just sorta get on with things.

You give it a basic instruction of a task you want to get off your plate and it will just…do it.

The big unlock for me was bookkeeping.

Ask my business partner and you’ll know this is one of my most hated tasks.

We hire a bookkeeper but still every month or so need to pull together the various invoices and submit them all. These invoices are scattered around my inbox and (much more annoyingly) in the dashboards of services we use.

OpenAI for example. You want the invoices? Tough shit. Come to your dashboard and download them… we’re not sending them to you. Ha! Ditto for a lot of providers.

So…enter Cowork.

I gave it the spreadsheet of invoices we needed. It went into my gmail and found the 13 companies who email invoices. Solid. Then it went and logged into all the other 20 or so companies who don’t send invoices and collected them all up for me. Got everything in a nice folder, ran checks against the original list and then batch sent them (labelled beautifully) to my bookkeeper.

This is ONE example.

I cannot overemphasise this:

In 2025 we spoke to AIs and they told us how to do things.

In 2026 they do the thing.

This is the big shift we are hitting right now as “agentic AI” finally becomes a reality. It was a buzzword before but now (in the last 2-3 months) this has become very very real.

If you are still primarily using AI to ask questions. As a Google replacement. Maybe on a free ChatGPT plan. Then you are using AI like we did in 2023.

We have moved on. An awful lot.

Next week I’ll do my lives and newsletters on how to start using this new batch of tools, starting with Claude Cowork.

If…you know, Claude exists next week!

Exciting times!

Kyle