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Comment by willydouhard

10 hours ago

Cowork does not seem to be focused on engineering, but we are fully expecting Anthropic to catch up in this category.

What Anthropic can't offer is to let you use Codex or combine it with Claude Code. That is why we think non ai-labs players have a say in this market.

To your last point, as always there is a buy vs build tradeoff which ultimately comes down to focusing on your core business which we think still remains important in the ai era

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verdverm  10 hours ago

> as always there is a buy vs build tradeoff

it's a nonbinary decision now

Google has a free, open source take on what you are building, looks more mature as well

https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/overview/

My comment about Cowork is more about pointing out a different feature set that will crossover with Code. In example they have the Task related things as an affordance, Code has this coming.

  • willydouhard  9 hours ago

    I believe there is a difference between an open source framework and a product. You would still have to manage and scale your infra, build the integration layer around it to make it accessible where your teams are, fix bugs etc...

    I am not saying that build is always the bad choice, but the tradeoff did not disappear imo