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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by jameshart on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:05AM (#46602824)
It’s easy for people to understand that if they point the powerdrill into a wall the failure modes might include drilling through a pipe or a wire, or that the powerdrill should not be used for food preparation or dentistry.

People, in general, have no such physical instincts for how using computer programs can go wrong.

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Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @06:01PM (#46609640)
Which is in part why rejection of anthropomorphic metaphors is a mistake this time. Treating LLM agents as gullible but extremely efficient idiot savants on a chip, gives pretty good intuition for the failure modes.
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