Lenny Rachitsky · 6 min read · Gen AI Tools
🎙️ How I AI: How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude Cowork & What launched at Google I/O 2026
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Felix Rieseberg, engineering lead for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic, demonstrates how he actually uses Claude in daily life and work—building a 3D floor planner from a 2D plan, turning emails into a personal inventory, and creating live dashboards from connected apps. He shares a practical AI philosophy: think one abstraction higher, let Claude work in the background, and redesign tedious tasks as AI-enabled workflows. He also explains model selection (Sonnet for well-scoped tasks and Opus for broader problem decomposition) and why live artifacts keep personal dashboards up to date.
Key Takeaways
- The biggest barrier to AI adoption is people not realizing they can ask AI to solve almost any problem; develop the muscle memory to reach for AI tools.
- When you encounter a tedious task, pause and ask if Claude could do it instead—it's often a psychological rather than a technical hurdle.
- Your email and receipts form a personal data gold mine; Claude can extract and organize it into actionable artifacts like floor plans or inventories.
- Live artifacts that refresh from connected services keep dashboards up to date automatically, eliminating manual updates.
- Model selection matters: use Sonnet for well-scoped tasks and Opus for higher-level interpretation and problem decomposition; kids often model AI more freely, highlighting human-AI collaboration benefits.
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How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude | Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic) Listen now on YouTube • Spotify • Apple Podcasts Brought to you by: Magic Patterns —Prototypes that look like your product Guru —The AI layer of truth Felix Rieseberg , the engineering lead for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop at Anthropic, joins Claire to show how he actually uses Claude in his own life and work. In this episode, Felix walks through building a 3D floor planner from a 2D house plan, using email as a personal inventory database, creating live dashboards from connected apps, and…