Anthropic says Claude Code transformed programming. Now Claude Cowork is coming for the rest of the enterprise.

Anthropic opened its virtual "Briefing: Enterprise Agents" event on Tuesday with a provocation. Kate Jensen, the company's head of Americas, told viewers that the hype around enterprise AI agents in 2025 "turned out to be mostly premature," with many pilots failing to reach production. "It wasn't a failure of effort, it was a failure of approach, and it's something we heard directly from our customers," Jensen said.The implicit promise: Anthropic has figured out the right approach, and it starts with the playbook that made Claude Code one of the most consequential developer tools of the past year. "In 2025 Claude transformed how developers work, and in 2026 it will do the same for knowledge work," Jensen said. "The magic behind Claude Code is simple. When you can delegate hard challenges,