I spent just 60 min last night having #claude Cowork and their Chrome extension do a data entry task. Note that everything I'm about to describe I could see on my screen and I wasn't doing anything...just watching. - Took a name from a google sheet - Went a website and looked up the name - and it knew what text box on the screen to put the name into (I had to have the tab for this site open) - If there were multiple entires for the name it found the right one - Took the three pieces of data from the name I wanted - Put the data in the sheet - but only after changing the data into the format I told it to - Moved on to the next name It took 2-4 min per name. There were 17 names. This takes a human less time, but not half as much. The big issue is that it times out after a few names. And essentially breaks. You might be thinking, "You could do this with Claude code. You don't want to use Cowork for this." I can't because you have to log into the site with the data - you can't scrape it. But Claude, after doing four of these said, "This is really time consuming - why don't we try to do this in Claude code." Today it's too slow to have it do the 1200 hours of work I'll need done this year - I'll have to outsource that - but no doubt in a few months it'll do it faster. I listened to a podcast with the developer at Claude who built Cowork - which they did in 10 days with Claude Code - and he said that while it's slow and clunky it's better than Claude Code was when it was released. I hope it doesn't get too fast too quickly as I'd like to have a moat in the new business with a data set my competitors don't have. But 12 months from now they'll have it. Not only does 2026 feel like a race, it clearly is a race. #ai #claude #vibecoding #wildtimes