The level of autonomy in Claude's agent products is impressive. I use all three:
— Chat + projects — for health monitoring, work tasks with document context
— Cowork — for working with local folders and automations
— Code — for complex projects (setting up my own OS based on OpenClaw, for example)
Recently there was a debate about whether n8n is still needed. I decided to test it — replicated my old AI news aggregation automation that used to run in n8n.
Went into Cowork, asked it to collect news from RSS feeds (TechCrunch, Reddit, vc.ru, etc.) and send them to me on Telegram. Specified to use cheap models, not Opus — to avoid burning through limits. Gave it the TG bot token. That's it. It did the rest in 3-5 minutes: connected to sources, designed the format, scheduled 3 digests per day.
The result — full AI digests with categorization, source links, and relevant filtering. What used to take half a day of node configuration and debugging in n8n, Claude Cowork did from a single prompt.