The Coworker Craze
The Rise of AI Coworkers
Navigating Confusion in AI Tools
The Challenge of User Experience
The Race for Market Share
Understanding AI's Agentic Capabilities
The Complexity of AI Interfaces
Rethinking AI Nomenclature
The Future of AI Collaboration
Navigating AI Workspaces
The Challenge of AI Integration
Product Maturity and User Experience
Understanding AI Tools and Their Applications
The Future of AI Models and Software
Simplifying AI Workflows
Episode 15: The Coworker Craze
OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic all shipped their version of an "AI coworker" in the same week. Justin and Kellan sort out what's actually new, what's just a new noun, and how they actually split their own work across chat, code, and everything in between.
The Drip:
- OpenAI releases ChatGPT Work — and the app rollout that has everyone confused
- Microsoft standardizes Copilot on GPT 5.6
- Meta ships Spark for agent orchestration; Gemini launches new features
- Why "agentic AI for business people" still has no obvious home
Inside The Bottle:
- Kellan's hot take: get rid of the tabs — one surface, let the model route the work
- Cowork and Claude Code are fundamentally the same thing; one is just more gated
- Justin's rule for picking a tool: does this thing have a runtime, or does it need shared context?
- Chat, plan, build — the mental model that actually holds up
- The subscription hack: same capabilities, roughly 2x the tokens
- The two things worth staying on top of: model progress, and the software around the models
- "The model is the person. The tool is how you choose to talk to them."
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