Comment by jdeng

Exciting to see Anthropic validate the "AI coworker" direction. We're building VITA AI (https://vita-ai.net) with similar philosophy but for enterprise QA testing.

One key architectural difference: Cowork runs sandboxed VMs on your local macOS machine, but we run sandboxes entirely in the cloud. This means:

- True isolation - agents never touch your local files or network, addressing the security concerns raised in this thread

- Actual autonomy - close your laptop, agent keeps working. Like delegating to a real coworker, not pairing with an assistant

- Scale - spin up 10 test agents without melting your CPU

The trade-off is latency and offline capability, but for testing workflows (our focus), asynchronous cloud execution is actually the desired model. You assign "test the checkout flow," go to lunch, come back to a full test report + artifacts.

Different use cases, different architectures. But the broader trend feels right - moving from conversational assistants to autonomous agents that operate independently.