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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast · May 14, 2026

AI PM Pawel Huryn reveals how to 10x productivity with Claude. Ditch Chat for Cowork and Code to build powerful, self-improving systems.

Iteratively Refining Custom AI 'Skills' is the Highest ROI Activity for Claude Power Users

The highest leverage activity is creating your own skills and then providing feedback on the outputs. Instruct Claude to analyze its mistakes and rewrite the underlying skill to prevent them from recurring. This creates a powerful, compounding improvement loop.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

Claude Cowork Creates McKinsey-Quality Presentations in Minutes, Eliminating Excuses for Bad Decks

By combining custom skills with its PowerPoint capabilities, Claude can produce sophisticated, well-structured, and visually appealing presentations. This automates a time-consuming task for PMs, raising the bar for meeting preparedness. There is no longer an excuse for a bad presentation.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

AI-Powered Workflows are Merging Product, Marketing, and Design into a Single 'Super PM' Role

AI is automating specialized tasks like prototyping and writing release notes. This blurs the lines between PM, PMM, and designer, forcing product managers to develop a broader skill set encompassing technology, strategy, and business goals to stay relevant.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

Build a 'Second Brain' for Your AI Agents, Not Yourself, to Create a Self-Improving System

Instead of curating a personal knowledge base, feed raw information (articles, posts, data) to AI agents. Task them with organizing it, identifying patterns, and forming rules. This creates a system where the agents' effectiveness grows autonomously with new data.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

Use N8N for Production Automation; Claude Code Is Too Unreliable for Enterprise Workflows

Claude Code operates by interpreting text files, which isn't secure or reliable enough for production systems. For business-critical automation, use tools like N8N to define hard-coded logic and guardrails, reserving Claude for personal productivity and prototyping.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

Use Vercel's Agent Browser Over Chrome MCP for More Token-Efficient Web Automation

Tools that rely on screenshots for web automation, like Chrome MCP, are token-intensive. Vercel's Agent Browser is a more efficient alternative because it interprets the webpage's structure and presents it textually to the AI, saving tokens and improving reliability.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

Power Users Should Ditch Claude's Web Chat for the More Capable Cowork and Code Interfaces

The standard web chat is too restrictive. Starting in Cowork or Code provides access to file systems, remote sessions, and coding capabilities from the outset, avoiding the need to restart your workflow in a different tool when you hit a limitation.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

Avoid Bloated Context Windows by Using Your `claude.md` as a Router to Domain-Specific Files

Putting all instructions in a single `claude.md` file is inefficient. Instead, use the main file to act as a router, containing only high-level instructions on where to find specific knowledge (e.g., in `marketing_rules.md`). This keeps prompts efficient and scalable.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago

Anthropic's Dispatch and Web Sessions Enable a Mobile-First, Asynchronous AI Workflow

The combination of Dispatch and Code Web Sessions allows you to initiate and manage complex AI tasks from your mobile device. Dispatch acts as a "walkie-talkie" to your agents, while Code Web Sessions run the tasks in the cloud, untethering you from your desktop.

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PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn

The Growth Podcast·2 months ago