{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Cowork Builds Apps Now, and 'Acquired Skills Will Appear Here' w\/ Garett Medlin","description":"Garett Medlin just got the official title for the job he was already doing: AI Practice Lead at P3. He\u2019s also the person responsible for Rob trying Cowork in the first place, despite Rob\u2019s very reasonable question: \u201cWhy the hell would I want Cowork if I already have Claude Code?\u201d Then Rob accidentally proved Garett right. He made an offhand comment about needing a better way to track feedback on book graphics. Nothing dramatic. Just the kind of annoying little process problem everyone complains about and nobody fixes. Two days later, there was a Slack bot reminding him to review images, a web app with approve buttons, surrounding context from the manuscript, and a clean way to send feedback without creating a Slack archaeology project. Built by a non developer. In Cowork. Which makes Microsoft\u2019s Copilot Cowork story\u2026 awkward. Garett came with the field report. Yes, it can make PowerPoints. Yes, it talks to OneDrive. No, it doesn\u2019t have memory. No, it doesn\u2019t have custom instructions. No, it doesn\u2019t have projects. The section where those capabilities are supposed to live is called \u201cAcquired Skills,\u201d and it currently says they will appear here. Which is a choice. At the same time, companies are getting top down mandates to spend $20 million a year on AI with absolutely no idea what they\u2019re supposed to spend it on. IT gets handed the problem, Copilot gets treated like the answer, and somebody nearby is always trying to sell a very expensive fear of the tools that already work. This episode is really about that gap. Between what\u2019s shipping and what\u2019s still \u201ccoming soon.\u201d Between the people waiting for enterprise permission and the people already building useful things on a Tuesday afternoon. Turns out, the scariest part of AI might be realizing the non developers got there first. ","author_name":"Raw Data with Rob Collie","author_url":"http:\/\/sites.libsyn.com\/295676\/site","html":"