Latent Space Podcast: Felix Rieseberg Reveals Anthropic's 2-Year Agent Platform Strategy — VM-First, Cowork Built in 10 Days

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Anthropic's head of Cowork Felix Rieseberg went on Latent Space and described their entire agent platform strategy for the next two years. Key reveal: Anthropic no longer writes specs then executes — they build all candidates in parallel, test with focus groups, and ship the winner. Cowork was assembled in 10 days from existing primitives. The core bet is giving Claude its own sandboxed Linux VM with access to your tools, file system, and Chrome sessions. As one analyst noted: 'If Anthropic can prototype any product that fast, what exactly is the defensibility of a startup building specialized tooling on their API?'