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Why Opus 4.5 Just Became the Most Influential AI Model

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Why Opus 4.5 Just Became the Most Influential AI Model

AI & I

2025/12/03
AI & I

AI & I

2025/12/03
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The world changed last week—Opus 4.5 is the best coding model Dan has ever used. It can keep coding and coding autonomously without tripping over itself—and it marks a completely new horizon for the craft of programming. The dream is here: You can write En...

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The arrival of advanced AI coding models is reshaping how software is built, making development faster and more accessible than ever before. What once required months of specialized work can now be prototyped in hours, collapsing traditional boundaries in tech and forcing a reevaluation of human roles in the creative process.
01:57
Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5 are driving significant changes in AI development.
03:28
Claude Opus adds agent-style thoughtfulness, constantly evaluating and improving outputs
08:18
Users can write AI features in plain English, drastically speeding up development iteration.
16:06
Spend two hours with Opus 4.5 before judging AI.
20:15
AI is blurring the lines between job roles and creating friction across workflows
22:56
AI is beneficial when it empowers, harmful when it thinks for you.
24:12
Each new encounter in AI feels like the edge of the world, but reveals more beyond.
31:15
People can learn to build meaningful software in two weeks and almost anything in two years, a task that used to take 20 years.
49:42
Claude was used to create a prediction model for the consulting industry's future
57:27
Claude wrote an investor update and strategy work with impressive results
1:02:42
LLMs are not truth-seeking but idea-translating systems

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Introduction
01:57
How Claude Opus 4.5 made the future feel abruptly close
03:28
The design principles that make Claude Code a powerful coding tool
08:12
How Ford uses Claude Code to build real software
10:57
Why collapsing job titles and roles can feel overwhelming
20:12
Ford’s take on using LLMs to write
22:56
A metaphor for weathering existential moments of change
24:09
What GLP-1s taught Ford about how people adapt to big shifts
25:45
Why you should care what your LLM was trained on
49:36
Ford prompts Claude Code to forecast the future of the consulting industry
52:15
Recognize when an LLM is reflecting your assumptions back to you
59:18
How large enterprises might adopt AI
1:12:39

Transcript

Dan Shipper: The world changed last week. Opus 4.5 is the first time where I've been able to vibe code. And it just keeps going without tripping over itself. It just keeps building stuff and it doesn't have errors. If there are errors, it fixes it. Paul F...