Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool, but if you actually use it for more than a few minutes it'll bring any Mac to its knees. Entire system becomes unresponsive eventually. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543

Justin Searls

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.

Can confirm, Claude Cowork is very cool,…