Latent Space: Why Anthropic Believes AI Should Have Its Own Dedicated Computer — Felix Rieseberg on the Claude Cowork Origin Story

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Latent Space interviews Felix Rieseberg, the Anthropic engineer behind Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, revealing the product emerged from an accidental discovery rather than a planned roadmap. Rieseberg explains Anthropic's core thesis: AI agents need a persistent, isolated computing environment — not just API access — to do real productive work. The episode is a rare primary-source window into how Anthropic's product philosophy around agentic compute is evolving beyond the API layer.