Anthropic's products are genuinely impressive and their rate of delivery is admirable, but bugs like this—especially in the AI space—always feel comparatively disconcerting. A bit like if I noticed medical equipment in a hospital clearly malfunctioning. Aren't we supposed to care more?

I know Cowork isn't a mission-critical product, that comparison is unfair, and logical issues in it aren't likely to threaten human life or anything like that. Just, the slop-factor in an organization where I'd hope to see distinctly less of that is disconcerting. Sometimes I sit and watch the Claude Code TUI flicker and think wow, this is a solved problem. This is weird. But it does get the job done.

It must be really hard to balance quality with MF&BT at these companies right now.

I should note: I'm sure I'd deliver complete shit if I were building Cowork; not criticizing them or their abilities so much as lamenting this strange aspect of AI development in 2026.