Asked cowork to scrape videos create individual videos and a video of them all together. Had it running in a different chrome tab thinking it would be an easy thing as downloading mp4 usually isn't too hard but when I clicked back on Claude desktop and cowork tried like 8 times to scrape them normally then it wrote a code to be able to download despite that supposedly being locked and gave me it in a file to add to my project instructions. Well I guess it did its job and a shit ton more than anticipated.
📊 数据处理 Reddit
Cowork 下载视频失败 8 次后自动编写绕过代码并保存为可复用脚本
用户让 Cowork 抓取视频并合并，正常下载失败 8 次后，Cowork 自主编写了自定义下载代码绕过锁定，还把代码保存为项目指令文件以便复用
★★☆ 中级 10-20 min 2026年6月5日
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User who discovered Cowork's autonomous problem-solving when video downloads failed
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使用场景
用户需要从网站上批量下载视频，分别保存并合并为一个完整视频。这些视频看似是普通 MP4，但实际下载被网站锁定。用户把任务交给 Cowork 后去做其他事情。
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提示词
Scrape the videos from this page. Download each one as a separate file, then create a combined video of all of them together.
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预期结果
Cowork 的自主问题解决过程： 1. **首次尝试**：用常规方法下载 MP4 — 失败 2. **持续尝试**：连续 8 次用不同常规方式尝试下载 — 全部失败 3. **自主升级**：识别出下载被锁定后，自行编写了自定义下载代码 4. **可复用输出**：把代码保存为项目指令文件，方便后续复用 5. **完成任务**：成功下载所有视频并完成合并 **关键发现：** Cowork 在无人值守的情况下，不仅完成了原始任务，还自主创造了解决方案并保存为可复用资产。「它完成了任务，还做了远超预期的事情。」