Why Anthropic Thinks AI Should Have Its Own Computer — Felix Rieseberg of Claude Cowork & Claude Code Desktop

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“is, this is like half joke, half true. So if you think about software engineering, when you're like a junior engineer, you work like 1, 2, 3 years. And in those 3 years, there's like maybe like a handful of moments where like you really learn something and then a bunch of other days where like you're not really progressing. Yeah. I think now we can use AI and these models to actually like shortcut these careers and almost like simulate the early years of your work and like just make them like super dense in like these learnings. It's like, hey, we're working on this feature, which is like a distributed system and you need to learn this thing that might take 3 months at a company. And so you take 3 months. Here it's like we're just simulating the whole thing. It's actually not a real thing. And in 1 week we kind of speedrun through the whole thing and you kind of learn your lesson from there. And we kind of repeat that. And like one year, you basically got like 3 years worth of like projects and experience. Yeah. I think it's harder for like things like sales or for things like, you know, marketing because you don't really have a way to get the feedback loop. But I think a lot of it, it sounds kind of silly. It's like you're making them do a fake job, but it's almost like you go to college, right? People pay to learn how to do it. And this might feel similar where it's like, hey, we have the Jane Street simulator. It's like, you want to come work at Jane Street? We'll just put you in the simulator for like 3 months and you'll come out of it. It's like, you know, I'm ready.”