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Recommends Claude desktop app.

19 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny

“For people that are just learning to use Cowork, the thing I recommend is, so, you download the Claude desktop app”

— Boris Cherny

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Boris Cherny
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19 Feb 2026
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Lenny's Podcast

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…And there's also this Chrome extension that you mentioned that you could just leave standalone that sits in Chrome, and you could just talk to Claude looking at your screen, at your browser, and have it do stuff, have it tell you about what you're looking at, summarize what you're looking at, things like that. Exactly. Exactly. For people that are just learning to use Cowork, the thing I recommend is, so, you download the Claude desktop app , you go to the Cowork tab, it's right next to the code tab. The thing that I recommend doing is start by having it use a tool. So, clean up your desktop, or summarize your email, or something like this, or respond to the top three emails. It actually just responds to emails for me now too. The second thing is connect tools. So, if you say, "Look at my top emails," and then sends back messages ... Or put them in a spreadsheet, or something. But, for example, I use it for all my product management. So, we have a single spreadsheet for the whole team. There's a row for engineer. Every week, everyone fills out a status. And every Monday, Cowork just goes through and it messages every engineer on Slack that hasn't filled out their status. And so, I don't have to do this anywhere. Wow.…

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