1 teardown of the decisions behind Anthropic.
Two labs shipped the same AI agent 48 hours apart — Anthropic's Claude Cowork and OpenAI's ChatGPT Work. Same demo, same capability. But strip off the marketing and one architectural decision splits them: where you put the human in the commit path. Adrian Vance breaks down why that single choice — optimistic vs pessimistic commit — is the whole story, and what it costs the team that standardizes on either.
