I gave Claude Cowork 7 non-coding jobs, and it earned a spot in my toolbox
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ZDNET's key takeaways
- Claude Cowork turned messy tasks into useful results.
- It helped fix servers, sort PDFs, and review contracts.
- Giving an AI that much access remains unsettling.
I am not a naturally trusting person. So when Claude Cowork was launched, the idea of giving an AI access to my Google Docs and Gmail did not sit well with me.
Heck, back in the day, the idea of letting Google manage my email didn't sit well with me, either. I was once a big proponent of only using servers you could touch, restart, and disassemble at 3 a.m. The idea of letting Google, the self-acknowledged master of information vacuuming, have access to my email seemed ludicrous.
Heck, even letting a cloud hosting provider host my web server seemed extreme. There was a time in the early days of the web...
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