Technology & AI
Claude’s Duet agent is a little neurotic and surprisingly helpful
Source: The Verge · Published

Let’s get to work. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different. Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that agen
Let’s get to work. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Normally, the products I test don't offer to help me write up my experience with them. Duet is different.
Claude Duet is Anthropic's AI agent for consumers, the latest attempt by an AI company to try to convince us that agents can be useful for people who don't write code. It's been an interesting couple of months: Instinct gave us an impressive text-based assistant , Meta offered us its cute little guy, Muse, to help us buy things , and OpenAI gave us the more work-oriented Dots . Claude Duet is even more focused on work than those.
It's also more consumer-friendly than Claude Cowork , which was more consumer-friendly than Claude Code - the co … Read the full story at The Verge.
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