Today’s episode

When do you use Claude chat vs Cowork vs Code? No one has created a resource that helps you get the most out of the Claude ecosystem.

Until now. I’ve brought back Pawel Huryn, the guest behind our most popular episode ever, the Complete Course on AI Product Management.

Today we’re covering everything you need to know to get the most out of the Claude Ecosystem.

Most PMs open Claude chat. Ask something. Get an answer. Close the tab. Tomorrow, same thing. Fresh context. Zero memory.

The PM who tracked Anthropic’s 74 releases in 52 days stopped doing this entirely. He built a system where Claude organizes its own knowledge, extracts its own rules from data, promotes hypotheses when evidence confirms them, and demotes them when it does not. The system improves without him telling it what went wrong.

I sat down with Pawel Huryn, creator of the Product Compass newsletter. He has defined 60+ PM skills, built a PM skills marketplace that hit 10,000 GitHub stars, and runs his entire content operation across Cowork, Claude Code, and Dispatch.

In this episode, he walks through every screen live. Real files. Real agent workflows. Real self-improving knowledge bases.

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Key Takeaways:

1. Stop using Claude Chat as your default. Cowork accesses real files, connects to Gmail and Slack via MCP, and runs parallel sub-agents. Chat does none of this.

2. Skills are the highest ROI investment. Install marketplace baselines, iterate 5-6 times with specific feedback, and Claude rewrites from first principles until 99% accuracy.

3. Progressive disclosure keeps context clean. Agent reads skill names and descriptions first. Loads full instructions only when the task matches. Hundreds of skills, minimal overhead.

4. Your CLAUDE.md should route, not store. Project structure and pointers only. Domain knowledge lives in separate files the agent loads on demand.

5. Build self-improving knowledge with three types. Rules are confirmed and applied by default. Hypotheses are tracked with evidence. Rejected patterns are kept to avoid retesting.

6. The three-line self-improving prompt works for any domain. Review rules before starting. Apply confirmed rules. Update after feedback. Testing, marketing, strategy, whatever.

7. Claude Code adds explorer view, hooks, subagents, and local MCP scoping. PMs need it once their system grows past 50 files.

8. Every Product Compass infographic was built in Claude Code. HTML generation, component library, iteration through conversation, PNG export. Zero code written by the human.

9. Use Agent Browser from Vercel instead of Chrome MCP. Chrome MCP screenshots every 0.5s and burns $100/hr. Agent Browser uses headless mode and is token-efficient.

10. Dispatch lets you run multiple tasks from your phone. Start an infographic, check emails, analyze competitors. Each runs as a separate thread. Your system works while you live.