Claude Cowork tutorial for non-engineers | JJ Englert (Tenex)

One of the things I love about having this project system, you're orchestrating now. Even though you might not be a developer, you're now an AI orchestrator. You can run many agents at once and have this top level view to be able to just quickly see which agent needs your attention and just give them those permissions or to pop back in.

I don't know, this is like very sad. All my friends are agents. I'm a solo founder. It is like very hard to just me by myself ensure that all my ideas are great.

When you use sub-agents, it will spin up three different agents, and each of those agents can have their own persona with like a fresh contacts window, meaning like fresh perspective to go and look at your work in an objective way.

If you're a product manager, build it and like put your boss in there, your engineering partner, and your customer and say, "Every PRD, review from these three points of view and give me feedback." If you're in marketing, your ICP. I think there's just a lot of places where this multi-view feedback mechanism is super useful.

One hundred percent. We could take this a step further and say, "Hey, create this sub-advisory skill," maybe three of the agents. Like one agent is literally your boss that you send an agent to go research who your boss is, their role, their perspective, and have them simulate the feedback that they might give you before you even go to them. The sky's the limit here. You just gotta tell Claude what to do, and it's gonna go do it for you.

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