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Claude Duet and the shift from chat assistants to background agents

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Anthropic announced Claude Duet on October 21, 2026: an agent that reaches out to the user first instead of waiting for a prompt. A few architecture details stand out for anyone building or evaluating agents: It runs in a cloud VM , so it keeps working after you close the app or end your session. I…

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  1. 2026-10-22 09:24 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Duet and the shift from chat assistants to background agents

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