I accidentally clicked the Claude Cowork button inside the Claude desktop app. I never used it. I didn't notice anything at the time, but a week later I discovered the huge VM file on my disk.
It would be really nice to ask the user, “Are you sure you want to use Cowork, it will download and install a huge VM on your disk.”
Same. I work on M3 Pro with 512GB disk, and most of the time I have aroung 50GB free that goes down to 1GB often quite quick (I work with video editing and photos and caches are agressive there). I use apps like Pretty Clean and some own scripts (for brew clean, deleting Flutter builds, etc). So every 10GB used is a big deal for me.
Also discovered that VM image eating 10GB for no reason. I have Claude Desktop installed, but almost never use it (mostly Claude Code).