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The system becomes entirely... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/can-confirm-claude-cowork-is-very-cool--sn21perrt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SN21perrt.png og:image:alt: Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool,… og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool,… **[Justin Searls](https://daily.dev/sources/searls)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Claude Cowork, a multi-agent coding feature in Claude Code, causes severe Mac performance degradation after a few minutes of use. The system becomes entirely unresponsive, traced to a GitHub issue showing the Cowork feature creates a 10GB VM bundle that tanks system performance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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