Claire Vo · 3 min read · Gen AI Tools
How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude | Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic)
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Felix Rieseberg shows practical ways to use Claude tools (Claude Cowork, Claude Code) to solve real-world problems, including turning floor plans into interactive 3D walkthroughs, treating email as an inventory database, and prototyping a $20 Claude-powered hardware device. He shares core design principles like 'go one abstraction layer up,' leveraging live artifacts for real-time dashboards, and choosing the right Claude model (Opus vs Sonnet 4.6) based on problem scoping, all while emphasizing latency-friendly, human-centric AI interactions.
Key Takeaways
- Claude tools enable turning 2D floor plans into interactive 3D walkthroughs and dashboards with real-time data via connectors.
- The 'go one abstraction layer up' principle helps avoid manual data entry and clarifies the real problem to solve.
- Live artifacts provide refreshable, real-time data sources that power dashboards and decision making.
- Model selection (Opus vs Sonnet 4.6) is guided by how well you can scope the problem, not by raw complexity.
- Building practical AI-powered projects (like a $20 Claude-connected hardware device) shows how to augment workflows with affordable hardware.
Excerpt
Felix Rieseberg is the engineering lead for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic. He previously spent five years at Slack building developer tools. In this episode, Felix demonstrates how he uses Claude to solve real-life problems: analyzing floor plans to build interactive 3D house walkthroughs, automatically tracking promises he makes on Twitter, and building a $20 hardware device that physically approves Claude actions with a button press. Listen or watch on YouTube , Spotify , or Apple Podcasts What you’ll learn: How to use Claude Cowork to turn a 2D floor plan into an interactive 3D walkthrough where…