AI Just Built Itself a New Tool in 2 Weeks

"AI coding assistants are now building other AI coding assistants. At this rate, my job security has a countdown timer and it's written in milliseconds."

Hello Builders! 👋

Anthropic just shipped Claude Cowork in under two weeks, and here's the kicker, the AI built most of it. Yeah, Claude basically built Claude's own collaboration tool.

This isn't some toy demo. We're talking about a production feature that lets Claude spawn multiple instances to work together on complex tasks. The meta-ness is wild, but what matters for builders is the timeline. Two weeks from idea to ship, with AI doing the heavy lifting on code.

The real question: is this the new baseline? If Anthropic's own team is shipping features this fast with AI assistance, the bar just got raised for everyone else. Solo builders who learn to orchestrate AI like this are going to absolutely smoke traditional dev teams.

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If Claude Cowork can build itself in under 2 weeks, maybe we're past the point of asking "can AI do this?" and into "how fast can we ship with it?" Wild that Anthropic just casually dropped a tool that threatens entire startup categories while proving its own point.

What are you building or shipping this week?

Keep shipping,

P.S. If you've been sitting on that AI agent idea, MedGemma 1.5 runs offline now. No more excuses about API costs.