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How to Use Claude's Massive New Upgrades

25 min episode · 2 min read

Episode

25 min

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2 min

Topics

Remote Work, Design & UX, Artificial Intelligence

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Key Takeaways

  • Remote Control (Claude Code): Start a Claude Code terminal session on your desktop, then continue directing it from your phone via URL or QR code. The session runs entirely on your local machine — accessing your file system, MCP servers, and configs — while mobile acts purely as a window. Use slash-RC to switch mid-session without restarting.
  • Dispatch (Claude CoWork): A single persistent conversation thread on your phone that spawns and manages multiple simultaneous CoWork or Claude Code sessions on your desktop. One user directed roughly 25 minutes of async instructions across a full day, generating over three hours of parallel Claude execution — competitor analysis, Notion pages, infographic iterations — without sitting at a desk.
  • Computer Use: Claude can now control mouse, keyboard, and screen inside Claude CoWork, operating any desktop application without API integration. This makes it viable for legacy enterprise software with no native AI connectors. Combined with Dispatch, Claude can execute multi-app workflows autonomously while you are physically away from the machine.
  • Channels (Claude Code): Connect external event sources — Sentry alerts, CI failures, webhook payloads, Telegram or Discord messages — directly into a running Claude Code session. Unlike chat, channels push events in from outside, enabling Claude to react autonomously to monitoring triggers without user initiation. Designed for developers wanting a fully hackable, programmable event pipeline.
  • Scheduled Tasks: Claude CoWork and Claude Code both now support recurring scheduled tasks. Local schedules run while your machine is awake; cloud-based schedules run on Anthropic infrastructure with no local dependency. Practical use cases include sweeping open PRs, analyzing overnight CI failures, syncing documentation after merged PRs, and generating weekly spreadsheet updates automatically.

What It Covers

Anthropic released five major Claude upgrades over roughly one month — Computer Use, Dispatch, Remote Control, Channels, and Scheduled Tasks — collectively shifting Claude from a chat tool into a persistent, always-on orchestration layer that executes multi-hour workloads autonomously across devices while users are away from their desks.

Key Questions Answered

  • Remote Control (Claude Code): Start a Claude Code terminal session on your desktop, then continue directing it from your phone via URL or QR code. The session runs entirely on your local machine — accessing your file system, MCP servers, and configs — while mobile acts purely as a window. Use slash-RC to switch mid-session without restarting.
  • Dispatch (Claude CoWork): A single persistent conversation thread on your phone that spawns and manages multiple simultaneous CoWork or Claude Code sessions on your desktop. One user directed roughly 25 minutes of async instructions across a full day, generating over three hours of parallel Claude execution — competitor analysis, Notion pages, infographic iterations — without sitting at a desk.
  • Computer Use: Claude can now control mouse, keyboard, and screen inside Claude CoWork, operating any desktop application without API integration. This makes it viable for legacy enterprise software with no native AI connectors. Combined with Dispatch, Claude can execute multi-app workflows autonomously while you are physically away from the machine.
  • Channels (Claude Code): Connect external event sources — Sentry alerts, CI failures, webhook payloads, Telegram or Discord messages — directly into a running Claude Code session. Unlike chat, channels push events in from outside, enabling Claude to react autonomously to monitoring triggers without user initiation. Designed for developers wanting a fully hackable, programmable event pipeline.
  • Scheduled Tasks: Claude CoWork and Claude Code both now support recurring scheduled tasks. Local schedules run while your machine is awake; cloud-based schedules run on Anthropic infrastructure with no local dependency. Practical use cases include sweeping open PRs, analyzing overnight CI failures, syncing documentation after merged PRs, and generating weekly spreadsheet updates automatically.

Notable Moment

A developer built a custom iOS app to orchestrate Claude Code sessions across Docker containers, VMs, and local machines — just four days after Channels launched. The speed from feature release to functional custom orchestration infrastructure illustrated how composable these new primitives are for technical users.

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Episode Transcript

Today on the AI Daily Brief, how to use all of Claude's massive new upgrades. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, recall dot ai, Assembly, PromptQL, and Blitsy. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe at Apple Podcasts. To learn about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. We are getting very close to full with q two spots. So if you're promoting, for example, a launch or anything in the near future, it is definitely a good time to reach out. Now, one more note on today's show. Yesterday was kind of a big politics and society episode. Today, we're running all the way in the other direction with something a lot more practical. There have been so many new things that have come out for Claude Code and Claude Cowork that it was time to go through them all, and and it ended up running quite long, so we will end up not doing the headlines today. We will be back with a normal headlines episode tomorrow. Two more things to quickly flag before we get into that. First, agent madness is live. The round of 64 is going. Hundreds of you have voted, and voting will close for this first round at the end of the day on Thursday, March 26. So go to agentmadness.ai to check that out. And finally, I'm noticing that I'm doing a lot more little companion experiences with these episodes. And so as of today, we're launching play.aidailybrief.ai, which is where all of those fun little experiences live. So for example, today, you can find the checklist of things to try with Claude right now, and again, that'll live at play.aidailybrief.ai. With all that out of the way, let's talk about all the cool new things you can do with Claude. Every other day or so for the last month, there has been some part of the headlines where Claude launched some new feature or upgrade for Claude Code or coworker or some other part of the Claude ecosystem. And at this point, it has officially gotten to the point where we needed to do a full on retrospective of everything that has launched over the last month or so to help you guys map out and figure out how to use all of these big new upgrades. Now, of course, this comes in a specific lineage of updates. Step one was the models. The Opus four five g p t five two generation of models that came about at the end of last year catapulted us into a new capability era that Opus four six g p t five three codecs and g p t five four have continued. Step two, of course, was the unlock that OpenClaw represented. It was …

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  • by Anthropic

    Claude can now control mouse, keyboard, and screen inside Claude CoWork, operating any desktop application without API integration.
  • by PromptQL

    SPONSORS [PromptQL]
  • by Anthropic

    Dispatch (Claude CoWork): A single persistent conversation thread on your phone that spawns and manages multiple simultaneous CoWork or Claude Code sessions on your desktop.
  • by Anthropic

    Anthropic released five major Claude upgrades over roughly one month — Computer Use, Dispatch, Remote Control, Channels, and Scheduled Tasks — collectively shifting Claude from a chat tool into a persistent, always-on orchestration layer.
  • by Blitsy

    SPONSORS [Blitsy]
  • by AssemblyAI

    SPONSORS [AssemblyAI]
  • by Recall.ai

    SPONSORS [Recall.ai]
  • by Anthropic

    Remote Control (Claude Code): Start a Claude Code terminal session on your desktop, then continue directing it from your phone via URL or QR code.

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