Claude Sydney Meetup Recap — Know Your Claude Tools

This morning, the 02Ship community gathered at Level 4, 64 Clarence Street in Sydney for our first Claude Sydney meetup. Hosted at the AnXin Wealth venue, the event brought together developers, entrepreneurs, product managers, and AI-curious folks for a hands-on introduction to the Claude ecosystem.

Attendees at the Claude Sydney meetup

What We Covered

The session — titled "Know Your Claude Tools: Claude, Cowork, Code — What, Why, and When" — walked through the three main ways to work with Claude:

Claude Chat — the conversational interface for quick questions, brainstorming, and iterative help. We covered power-user features like the Option double-tap shortcut, screenshot sharing, and Projects.
Claude Cowork — for sustained research, analysis, and document creation. Cowork reads local files, browses the web, and even supports scheduled tasks.
Claude Code — the full developer environment that lives in your terminal. It reads your codebase, writes code, runs tests, and commits — all with your approval. We walked through the three modes: Ask, Code, and Plan.

The key takeaway: pick the right tool for what you're producing. Need an answer? Chat. Need a document or research brief? Cowork. Need working software? Code. Start with Sonnet for most tasks, escalate to Opus when depth matters.

Community Sharing

After the presentation, attendees took the open mic to share how they're already using Claude — from automating repetitive workflows to prototyping new product ideas. The diversity of use cases was a highlight, showing just how broadly these tools apply beyond traditional software development.

Tools & Resources Mentioned

OpenAI Prompt Optimizer — fine-tune your prompts
Superpowers for Claude Code — skills that extend Claude Code's capabilities
Autoresearch — Karpathy's automated research tool
02Ship.com — our community learning portal

Join the Next Meetup

We're doing this again on Tuesday, March 31 at Haymarket HQ (Level 2, 63 Dixon St, Haymarket). This time it's an evening session (6:00 - 8:30 PM) featuring a live demo on creating slides with Claude Code, a second talk, community mic time, and networking.

It's free — but spots are limited.

Register for the March 31 meetup on Luma

See you there.