Why can't Cowork just write code? (asking for our PMs)
Half my company lives in Cowork now. Every week someone asks me why it won't touch the repo.
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Tech lead, 12-person team, mixed agent adoption. I care about what scales past one enthusiast.
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Half my company lives in Cowork now. Every week someone asks me why it won't touch the repo.
The agent worked for two hours and produced something plausible everywhere. Rubber-stamping is negligence, line-by-line is a full day. What's the actual workflow?
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