Anthropic just released the real Claude Bot...

Back in my day, if you wanted to stop working without your boss knowing, you'd take advantage of salary arbitrage and outsource your job to a developer in China. But earlier this week, Anthropic made this type of white collar fraud a whole lot easier with the release of Computer Use, a way for Claude to autonomously control your entire computer with a single prompt. It can open apps, schedule jobs, prepare reports, and even flirt with your workspouse all on your behalf. And here's the crazy part. You don't even have to be at your computer to use it because you can prompt it directly from your phone. something very familiar about all this >> and it'll never get mad at you like when you hand your dad the wrong screwdriver. It's only available on Mac OS right now, but I was able to beat up a homeless JavaScript developer and steal his MacBook so we could test it out. In today's video, we'll take a look at everything that's possible with computer use to find out if it's worth the hype or if it's just another way to make us cannon fodder in a war we never signed up for. It is March 26, 2026 and you're watching the code report. If you haven't been paying attention, you may have missed that Daario, the CEO of Anthropic and Mario's greedy childhood rival, has been making the rounds with his favorite activity, yelling fire in a crowded theater. According to Daario, 50% of all entry-level lawyers, consultants, and finance professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1 to 5 years. And it's not just Daario trying to make that reality. As you may remember last month, Snake Whale Sam and Open AI acquired OpenClaw that the original AI personal assistant that was originally named Clawbot before receiving a seasoned desist letter that was handd delivered from Warriio himself. And now we know exactly why Anthropic wanted to kill OpenClaw. But how do these tools compare to each other? In a way, it's kind of like Android versus iOS 2.0. OpenClaw is free and open source, runs locally, and is model agnostic. Computer use is paid closed source, only works on Mac OS, and is coupled to clawed models. But just like Android, OpenClaw's openness comes with some trade-offs. The Palo Alto Networks warned it quote presents a dangerous combination of access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and the ability to communicate externally while retaining memory. But keep in mind, this is the same Palo Alto networks that got in trouble for dressing actual real life women up as risque lampshades to promote a happy hour in Vegas a few years back. So maybe take that with a grain of salt. With that being said, one of Open Claw's own maintainers did caution that if you can't understand how to run a command line that the project may be too dangerous for you to use safely. So, for you reacts out there, you may want to check out Computer Use because it just works without any setup and takes a permission first approach, asking before accessing new apps and only touching the folders you explicitly allow. So, before this homeless guy wakes up, let's test it out. YouTube doesn't really put food on my family anymore is so I need to work four or five other full-time six-f figureure programming jobs just to make ends meet. And here's how Claw Computer use helps me defraud my employers. The first, I use it to write and then email cover letters to a bunch of potential employers. Once they offer me a testicle interview, I again spin up clawed computer use in the background to listen to the conversation and instantly implement any leak code trash they try to throw at me. In my opinion, this isn't cheating. It's just a distributed cognition layer in a separate browser tab. Once hired, I can then sync up Claude to my calendar. As you can see here, we have a daily standup meeting scheduled for Monday. The Claude will automatically open my calendar and click on the Zoom link where it can attend the meeting and listen to whatever my boss might be yapping about. And it can even run my local AI voice model on the fly to participate in the meeting. >> Hi Jeeoff, we need you to like implement a distributed system that never goes down, scales infinitely, and cost zero dollars and we like meet up by Friday. >> Hi Karen, you are absolutely correct. Initializing infinite scale zero budget distributed system now, pontificating, the schleing, transmuting. >> Thank you Jeff. You are an incredible human being. >> After the meeting's over, Claude will then start writing some code. It only takes Claude about five minutes to write this code, but I then have it schedule a pull request at 4:30 p.m. on Friday to simulate human productivity. 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