Found a delightful use for Claude Cowork that I didn’t expect 🎵
A family friend emailed us a list of songs timed with our new baby and plenty of evenings that could use a sweet soundtrack. I thought I’d challenge Cowork: could it actually create a Spotify playlist from this test list of 62 songs?
The prompt was simple: “Make me a playlist on spotify”, then I pasted in the list of songs.
What happened next genuinely surprised me:
🔌 It first tried accessing Spotify’s APIs directly
⏱️ When it hit rate limits, it attempted to throttle itself and even use batching to be efficient about its API calls
🖥️ Then it pivoted, taking control of Chrome, navigating Spotify Web, and building the playlist track by track
📸 It even took screenshots to verify its own work every time it added a song!
The whole thing felt like watching someone problem-solve in real time. Adapting, retrying, self-checking.
Tonight, I can reply to our friends with a link to an actual shared playlist! 🎧 A small moment, but it’s these kinds of unexpected uses that make me most excited about where agentic AI is heading.
