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Remco Livain

Remco Livain

📍 Zürich, Switzerland

Cowork reached my phone this week. I still can't tell where chat ends and Cowork begins.

Anthropic put Claude Cowork on mobile this week and OpenAI shipped ChatGPT Work days later. The Code-vs-Cowork line is clean; the Chat-vs-Cowork line still isn't. An operator's honest map of a messy, powerful moment.

The industry column was wrong on two-thirds of the list. I checked every one.

A sales list arrived neatly tagged by industry. Two-thirds of the tags were wrong. Why the confident-looking label is the base rate to distrust — and why AI makes checking cheap, not optional.

Where headquarters ends and the distributor begins

Your distributors keep asking HQ for more support. The real gap is quieter: nobody ever agreed where headquarters' responsibility for growth ends and the distributor's begins. Here's how to draw the line, market by market.

Our au pair flew home last night. The house is quieter this morning.

A year with an au pair — what it made possible for our family, and a thank-you at the end of a chapter we'd choose again without hesitating.

I shipped half a feature on purpose. The other half can't wake up by accident.

Pay-per-lead went live half-on: capture collecting real enquiries today, payments deployed but dormant behind a fail-safe gate until the review says otherwise.

The form promised a copy by email. Nobody was sending it.

My own funnel promised prospects a copy of their results and never sent one. The rebuild: a report email that has to convert alone — and actually reach the inbox.

For the first time ever, I closed a quarter without a missing receipt.

Months of rebuilding my accounting around Claude Code and Cowork paid off: zero missing receipts, and my accountant's new one-PDF format automated in 45 minutes. The dread is gone.

The hard part isn't Git. It's knowing which machine you're standing on.

Working with GitHub through AI assistants adds a layer nobody warns you about: three filesystems, token scopes you discover at the finish line, and the ambient-context workaround that got me through.

Where the European dental industry actually meets. A distributor's calendar.

IDS Cologne, EAO Lisbon, ADF Paris, Dental World Budapest, Krakdent, BDIA, Expodental Rimini — the European dental events that matter, read from the commercial side of the channel: where distribution deals actually get made.

Fable 5 is back. My terminal still hands me the junior.

Fable 5 returned on 1 July — but Claude Code still defaults to Opus 4.8. A senior partner in one window, a junior developer in the other. Know which one you're talking to.

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