Cat Wu: recommendation

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…People are just like sleeping on the success that co-work is having. It's just like growing incredibly fast. And I think people still don't understand maybe what it's for. And so what if you give us a couple of use cases just in your work as a PM? What are some like really interesting, maybe unexpected ways you use co-work to save you time, get more work done? If you're getting started on co-work, the first thing that you really need to do is connect all the data sources that are relevant to your role. Because coworker can only do a great job if it has access to all the context that it needs to be able to curate the output for you. So what that means for me is I connect it to my Google Calendar, I connect it to my Slack, to my Gmail, to my Google Drive, so that it just knows it has the flexibility to find relevant context, to ask questions, to pull in threads, and this substantially improves the quality of the result. The kinds of things I use it for are, like last night, we have this Code with Cloud conference coming up, and there's a few talks that I'm giving there. One of the talks that we're doing talks about the transition of Cloud code from an assistant to a full-on agent. And one of the things that I wanted to do in this talk was to showcase all of the products that we've been shipping that enable this transition and also to figure out, OK, what are the what are the success stories that people have had internally that we can use as demos? And so I have my Google Drive connected. I have Slack connected. Alex, who's our product marketer, put together a draft of what the points that he thinks we should cover are. And so I just fed this all into Cowork. I told Cowork the narrative that I wanted to tell. And it actually just worked for an hour. It walked through Twitter to see what we launched. It looked through our evergreen launch room. It looked in our quad code announce channel, which is where our team posts demos of how they've been getting the most value out of quad code. And it synthesized all this together to this 20 page deck that I woke up to this morning and I read through it and it was like pretty good. There were a few tweaks, so I did have to give it a round of feedback. I like my slides to have extremely minimal words and it was a little too wordy. But it was far faster than what I would be able to produce. And because Cowork has access to our whole design system, it actually looks like an anthropic designer put it together. When you visually see it, you're like, oh, this is incredibly polished. So these are the kinds of things that are so much faster. Making this slide deck would have taken me hours. But instead, it turns out a draft that It's actually quite good. So I could focus on making sure that the demos are amazing, that we plug into it. This sounds like a dream come true to PMs that putting decks together is so annoying.…

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