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The Claude family... (chat, cowork & code)
I noticed my conversations with Claude in chat weren't carrying over to Cowork or Code. They're all separate. So I asked about it. Here's the answer I got... sharing in case it saves you time too. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Great question, and your frustration is completely valid — this is a genuine gap in the current product. Let me break it all down clearly. The Three Tools ➡️ Claude Chat (claude.ai) This is where you are right now. It's a conversational interface — you type, Claude responds. It's best for thinking, planning, writing, analysis, and brainstorming. Memory is rich within a conversation but doesn't persist across sessions by default, and the model has no access to your local files unless you explicitly paste content in. Medium ➡️ Claude Code Claude Code is a command-line autonomous agent that operates on your local file system, reads your entire codebase, and performs multi-file coding tasks with deep architectural context. The key difference from Chat is execution: Claude AI produces text, while Claude Code takes action on your actual code. Medium It lives in your terminal (or VS Code/JetBrains plugin). It can read files, run tests, manage git, and edit code directly on your machine. ➡️ Claude Cowork Cowork is the newest tool — it lets people complete non-technical tasks in the same asynchronous way they use Claude Code. It's designed for non-developers who want to automate repetitive file management and cross-application desktop workflows without code. VentureBeat Think bulk file sorting, extracting data from PDFs, managing documents across apps — all from a chat-like interface.
The Claude family... (chat, cowork & code)
2 likes • 16d
@Lydie Molina I really do not understand the Claude thing at all, Claude seems expensive, clumsy, and difficult to work with from reading this. I'm not a big fan of the AI things as it is often incorrect in my sector. When I have tested it or seen work done by it I am always having to remind it about significant gaps, errors and serious omissions. Which for compliance is critical, I will find a use for it one day but right now sticking with my own brain it has the benefit of being token free.
2 likes • 15d
@Lydie Molina it still says to me but shit in get shit out lol
Reminder: Gratitude Changes the Lens🐝
Gratitude doesn’t magically solve every problem. But it does change how we see them. It shifts our mindset from “I’m not where I should be” to “Look how far I’ve already come.” And from that place, we tend to make better decisions. 🐝Feeling behind? Pause and be grateful you’re even in the arena. 🐝 Feeling stuck? Pause and appreciate what you’ve already built. 🐝 Feeling overwhelmed? Pause and recognize the opportunity sitting in front of you. Take a moment and drop one thing (or a few) you’re grateful for right now. You might be surprised how quickly it lifts your mood. 🙏✨
Reminder: Gratitude Changes the Lens🐝
2 likes • Mar 15
@Lydie Molina Gratitude is a powerful mindset and it can absolutely help us maintain perspective when life throws challenges our way. At the same time, I sometimes wonder whether we risk stretching the concept too far when we try to be grateful for everything that happens. A flooded basement, loss, injustice, or cruelty are still genuinely negative events, and I believe it’s reasonable for people to acknowledge that. Perhaps the real strength lies not in being grateful for the hardship itself, but in being grateful for the resilience, support, and resources that help us deal with it. In other words, gratitude for the roof over our heads, the people who help us clean up, and the ability to recover while still recognising that some situations are simply difficult and worth improving or preventing. That balance might be what keeps gratitude honest rather than forced?
2 likes • Mar 21
@Lydie Molina It can be hard, but somethings just do not need or can be fixed. Really hard concept for someone like me but I'm still learning and will never stop learning
I Spent $175K on Self-Help. Here's What Nobody Told Me
I just published the most personal thing I've ever written. Full story here: https://aligncore.ai/letters/i-spent-175k-on-self-help/ The short version: I spent 15 years and $175,000 from my inherited childhood home trying to fix myself. Self-help books. Motivational seminars. A SPECT brain scan where they told me my brain had small dips like someone had been scooping it out with a tiny spoon to taste it like frozen yogurt. They prescribed a hyperbaric oxygen chamber and $600-every-six-months supplements. I stopped ordering a year ago. I'm still alive. I bought 250 copies of Ed Mylett's book just to spend a day at his house. His neighbors were Adele and Justin Bieber. He was tan and intense and cool. I cheered. I felt awe. But deep down all of it felt like a stage performance: beautiful, emotional, motivational... but rehearsed. It's like I was watching a 2025 video generation AI produce an intimate scene in real time right in front of me: cool looking. No real intimacy. At least that's what I saw with the mindset that I had at that time. I didn't realize that until later. I did 75 Hard while working nine-hour FedEx routes. Made it 28 days before I started forgetting package numbers and losing my train of thought mid-sentence. My manager said I was one of the fastest AND most accurate drivers they'd ever had. So the discipline was clearly there. The direction wasn't. None of it stuck. Not because the advice was bad because I think every single guru taught me something real. But I never stopped to ask the obvious question: does this make sense for ME? I figured it out by accident. I was SO excited when this feature came out: I connected ChatGPT to my journals in Notion. I was looking for patterns. I was looking for anything that could give me something. Something that made sense to me. A sign that I had core values. That I had a North Star. The response made me tear up. A thread I'd never seen: every meaningful thing I'd ever done (the dance crew with my brothers, the dot technique I invented for Color Guard, the systems I built at every job) was the same thing.
2 likes • Feb 28
@Shelly Paige I totally agree, when that happens nothing stops you and it becomes fun.
2 likes • Feb 28
@Shelly Paige what an incredible question, @Aaron Cabrera and the gauntlet has been thrown down.
About "hustling" 🤬!
"Hustle was never meant to be a permanent state. It was a survival tool that has now expired." - Dr. Mariel Buqué This quote hit home... We've been sold hustle as an identity. As proof of worth. As the price of admission for anyone who wants to build something meaningful. But what if the very thing driving you is also draining you? Dr. Buqué, a psychologist and trauma expert, explains that for many of us, especially high achievers, children of immigrants, anyone who's had to prove their place—hustle wasn't a choice. It was protection. - Hustle kept us safe when we didn't feel "enough." - Hustle gave us control when life felt chaotic. - Hustle was the armour we put on so no one could see the soft spots underneath. And it worked. It got us here. But here's the catch: What once protected you now just weighs you down when there's no battle left to fight. If you're feeling: - Exhausted but unable to stop - Successful but empty - Driven but disconnected from why ...it might not be that you're doing something wrong. It might be that your survival tool has expired, and your nervous system is still running on emergency mode. The neuroscience? (My fav!) When we operate from survival hustle, we're stuck in sympathetic dominance (fight or flight). The brain perceives not hustling as a threat. So we keep running... even when no one's chasing us. The way out isn't more discipline. It's safety. It's letting your system know: You can rest now. You've already survived. Now it's time to build from wholeness, not from lack. I shared a little bit more of my story / about this topic HERE. So here's my question for you today: What would you build if you stopped building to prove you belong and started building from a place of already belonging? Are you already doing that? Drop a comment if this landed. 👇
About "hustling" 🤬!
3 likes • Feb 27
@Danielle Wright a warm tropical island just for you
3 likes • Feb 27
@Danielle Wright Ill start a sun worship group in the north east shall i for the two days a year it comes out lol
MrT Has Arrived!
Hi Guys, I know some of the guys here already and you know who you are and what to expect from me, but the rest of you be warned it is time to wake up and be real. I am open, honest, raw, hard working, and push others to be the best version of themselves as it is easier than pushing me, LOL . My Introduction: - I am on a wild journey, if I told you you wouldn't believe me, and if I did tell you, then I'd have to kill you as it is a secret. - What I want to accomplish is to transform an in person done for you service into a fully digital offering using platforms like Skool etc and retire to a white sandy beach making surf boards, just not yet though. - The problem my business SOLVES, I keep business owners out of jail, by simply ensuring they keep everyone including themselves safe at work. - The 🌍 world I live in is the UK mainly, but I work globally, last year in UAE, Ireland, and UK and in 2026 I am launching a digital compliance project into the USA. - What gets me FIRED UP is helping others and winning at life and my favourite sport. - I have already built something to change lives, I am now changing this to change even more lives because a digital offering has a huge reach if I get it right, little old me with global reach, go figure. - For fun, I love Music (with a rock biased) but extremely eclectic, I love rugby, F1, boxing, Six Nations, Northampton Saints, Travelling Internationally, Making friends, 😊 I also liked to play rugby and box, i aim to learn the Guitar this year to and I've started to compose lyrics. - I have had both Cats and Dogs so no preference, I do love a cute animal picture/video. - THINGS you should know, I'm of an older generation where honour, integrity, trust, respect, grit, and doing the right thing are not just words. Being big enough to apologise when you screw up and I do, frequently. I have been loved twice in my life, I have been widowed twice. I have five amazing daughters, I am a grandad to 8 and a great granddad to Moo Moo my first great granddaughter. I am passionate about my business. The rest you'll have to figure out as I am a complex puzzle with some of the pieces missing down the back of my metaphorical sofa. Not everyone's cup of tea, but if I like you well be friends for life. Come say Hi, I don't bite hard not on a first date. 😜
1 like • Feb 22
@Anthony Smits I think I saw your brother in another community, say hi to him next you see him 😂
2 likes • Feb 26
@Shelly Paige Thank you for the encouragement and positive vibes 🤩
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Supporting UK SME's with fire and safety compliance, before enforcement agencies do it for them.

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