I'm just going to get it out of the way.

Claude Opus 4.5 is the greatest AI model

I've ever used. It is absolutely

revolutionary for coding while also

being significantly faster and cheaper.

What Anthropic released today, I think,

is the biggest leap in AI we've seen in

maybe years. In this video, I'll cover

why I feel this way, tell you everything

you need to know about this model and

how it works, show you all the tests I

ran, and give you some ideas for things

you can build today, even if you've

never coded a day in your life. This

might sound like a whole lot of hype,

but I'm about to back up everything I

just said. If you watch this video until

the end, you will be a master of Claude

Opus 4.5 and be able to build the apps

of your dreams. Let's get into it. So,

real quick, getting into everything that

changed with Claude Opus 45, we will

speed through this. Number one, when it

comes to coding, and this is not a lie.

A lot of these benchmarks these AI

companies put out are totally crap. They

totally make things up. They overfit

their models for the benchmarks. This is

true. Opus 45 is significantly better

than any other AI model I've ever used

when it comes to coding, and it is not

remotely close. It's incredible for

agent coding, coding in the terminal,

for using different tools while it's

coding, for novel problem solving, for

solving big bugs and issues. It is the

best and is not even really questionable

that it's the best. There's some things

it's not best at, and shout out

Anthropic for showing the benchmarks

that it did not win at things like

graduate level reasoning, visual

reasoning, multilingual Q&A. Those are

things that Gemini 3 Pro, I feel like,

is their sweet spot. Anthropic sweet

spots more on the building and coding

side. But for that building in coding,

it is the creme de la creme

unquestionably. In fact, it is so good

at coding, it beat all the other

engineering candidates that applied for

anthropic. They gave the coding exam

they give engineering candidates to

Claude Opus 45. It beat every single

engineering candidate that applied for

anthropic. Every single one. And I'll

tell you this, the coding tests they

give to people applying to these big AI

research labs, they're probably the

hardest tests you're ever going to get.

Opus 45 beat all of them, higher than

any human candidate ever. I don't want

to call Claude Opus 45 AGI. I think

we're still a bit off from that. But I

will go as far to say that this might be

coding AGI. AGI is when AI is just as

good, if not better, than humans in

every way. I think this is just as good,

if not better, than humans when it comes

to coding. I am going to say it's coding

AGI. And I'm going to show you why in a

second. Here's maybe the most underrated

update of them all, though. On top of

all that, your conversations

no longer hit walls. Usually, when

you're talking to an AI and you're

having longer conversations, eventually

you hit a wall and you have to like

start a new chat because the context

window was filled up. They figured out a

new way inside of Claude where you're no

longer hitting walls and your

conversations can basically be infinite

length. They found a new way to

progressively compact as you go. That is

massive. Now you can have massive huge

conversations in claude in claude code

that don't degrade over time. That is

revolutionary and is going to make using

AI so much better. On top of that, they

released Claude Code Desktop. And this

is so sick, too. Inside the Clawed

Desktop app, which is out on Mac and

Windows, you now have this new button

right here, which switches you to the

coding section where you now can use

Claude Code right on your desktop. It

does it both locally and on the web. So,

you have your web agents that you can

spin up on the side as well as working

locally on your computer. I've been

testing this app all day and it is

excellent. It is the new way I'm going

to use Claude Code. I'm not going to use

Visual Studio Code anymore. I'm not

going to be using Cursor with the CLI in

it or just the CLI by itself. I think

this is the best version of Claude Code

yet. It's basically a wrapper for the

CLI where it's taking everything going

on in your CLI and giving it a nice

visual interface, right? So, it's not

adding a ton on top of it. It's just

taking everything you have in your CLI

and making it nice to read, easy to use,

good formatting, everything like that.

And what makes it so good now is I now

have it side by side with all my other

clawed code sessions. So instead of

having to have 20 different Visual

Studio Code windows open at all time

that slows my MacBook down to a crawl, I

now can have all my sessions side by

side cloud code for desktop. If I want

to spin up AI agents on the cloud, I can

do that. or if I want to work locally, I

can do that. That is so so nice. And on

top of that, it is right next to my

chats. So I can go in, have chats with

Claude, just kind of as an AI chatbot,

my co-pilot CEO, and quickly switch over

to Claude Code with one click and spin

up agents to get work done for me.

Amazing. But let's talk about the coding

performance. The reason why we're here

today, how good is it at coding? Well,

as I said earlier, this is

revolutionary. Claude Opus 45 is

significantly better. And when I say

better, I'm comparing it to Sonnet 45,

which I think was the previous king of

coding, but as well as Gemini 3 and 5.1

codecs. It is significantly cheaper.

That's in comparison to the previous

Opus. So the previous Opus was actually

three times more expensive. 4.1 was

three times more expensive than 45. In

fact, it is now the same cost inside

Claude code as sonnet. You have the same

limits inside claude code with opus 45

as you do sonnet 45. In fact, opus 45 is

now the default inside claude code. This

is the first time ever anthropics done

that they push opus 45 on you to use

instead of sonnet. That is mind-blowing.

And then on top of that, it's

significantly faster. Check this out.

One of the first tests I do with every

new coding model is have it build a 3D

complex firsterson shooter. I gave it my

prompt to build it. It built a to-do

list out, which is standard. Every model

does this. What it did is first I was

very impressed. It pulled in the right

skills to use with with the prompt right

away, which honestly before this claude

was like 20% hit rate on pulling in the

correct skills. Now it's at 100%. And

then it went in, wrote all the code, and

then checked off every to-do list.

Right? Instead of going down the to-do

list one by one, it just oneshot the

entire to-do list. It did this at a

speed that was significantly faster than

Sonnet and definitely way faster than

the last Opus. Opus was slow as f 4.1.

It was unbelievably slow. This is not

only faster than Opus, it is just as

fast, if not faster than Sonnet. It

completed the entire to-do list. Now,

usually when you're working with an AI

model, you have better, cheaper, faster.

It's pick two of three. Every other AI

model in the past is pick two or three.

You can have it where it's better and

cheaper, but it's not going to be

faster. You can have faster and better,

but it's not going to be cheap. This is

the first model where it codes better,

cheaper, and faster. This app I'm about

to show you was completely one-shot.

This is the exact conversation I had

right here. And here is the code it

produced by me saying build a 3D

firstperson shooter with enemies and

power-ups. I have ran this test with

every AI model that's came out and none

of them have come remotely close to what

you're about to see here. So you come

in, it immediately has different waves.

You have these spectacular visuals with

stars and planets around you. There's

audio. I think you can hear the audio

through the recording of the enemies

coming at you. Really nice particle

effects. And they have different, if you

can see on the right, you're gaining XP

for every single thing you kill. And you

even get combos. So if I kill things

fast enough, you can see the combos on

the right. This was all with just a

really simple prompt that said, "Build a

stylistic firsterson shooter with

enemies and guns and powerups." This is

by far the Look, you can see the waves

and the scores coming in. This is by far

the best test I've ever ran with an AI.

Spectacular. I had to build an entire 3D

city flythrough simulator. So, we have

this entire city it generated in one

single file of this 3D flythrough where

you can see all the buildings. You can

see the different lighting. You can see

different windows lit up. You can see

different details like the antennas on

top of the building. I've ran this with

every single model. None of them have

come close to this. Some of them have

crashed my computer. They were so bad.

This is excellent. This is so much

better than any other model has ever

done. And that was all with one shot as

well. It is writing more code, faster,

and with higher quality that works on

the first try. It hasn't introduced any

bugs in any of the tests I've done so

far. It just all works in one shot,

which is amazing. As for chatting with

Opus 45, it is very strong as well. It's

very different. It's different than what

I was expecting. So just for

comparison's sake, I was planning this

app with 5.1 thinking which was my

previous favorite when it came to

creative planning and it gives you a

lot. It's very good ideas but you know

you get a lot of fluff where you get a

lot of wind up on the explanation and

then it gave me a bunch of ideas for the

apps. Every idea came with a whole bunch

of bullet points and it gave me like 17

different ideas with a ton of bullet

points and then even more kind of fluff

afterwards explaining it. It's good

fluff. I like the fluff, but there's

just a lot. This is a very long

explanation. I'm just saying, "Hey, can

you help me plan out this app?" With

Claude Opus 45, it's a little different

where there's basically zero fluff.

Basically, a sentence windup before the

explanation. Then it gives me a few

ideas. Every idea basically just has a

one-s sentence explanation behind it.

And then the ending is just another one

sentence. So there's no formatting,

there's no bullet points, it's just

here's your ideas and an explanation

behind each. While GBD 5.1 Thinking gave

me a tremendous amount of bullet points

and formatting, from a speed

perspective, this was also significantly

faster than 5.1 and definitely much

faster than Opus 4.1. Now, the question

becomes, you know, what is your

preference when you ask a question and

want an explanation? Do you want a ton

of formatting and detail? If you do, I'm

probably still sticking with 5.1

thinking. But if you just want quick,

concise answers that get straight to the

point, Opus 45 looks like it's going to

be the way to go for this. I'm going to

be honest, me personally, I think I

actually do like the detail. I think I

like super deep dives when I ask

questions. So, I might be sticking with

5.1, but I still might be using Opus 45

more to be honest with you because this

user interface of switching between

coding and chatting is so nice and well

done and simple where I can go in, give

a prompt to an AI, then come out and do

a chat, then go back and forth. I might

be switching to 45. So, here's your

workflow. Here's what I would do right

now to build amazing things with Opus

45. I would make sure you update your

desktop app. I would come into the chat

session, start a new chat, go to Opus45.

I would make a list of all your

interests. Just brain dump all your

interests. Say, "Hey, can you help me

come up with four to five ideas for apps

I can build that are part of my

interests?" Take one of those ideas that

Opus gives you, because it is a really

good creative planner. switch to the

code mode right here. Spin up a new

agent to do that work. Build it out and

then go back and forth between the chat

and the agent. Say, "Hey, I just started

building this out with the agent. What

would you add?" Then you take those

ideas. Go to the coder. Put those new

ideas in. Go back to your chat. Say,

"Okay, this is where we are. This is our

progress. What are some marketing ideas?

What are some other things we can build

out?" Then go back to the coder. Make

the chat your co-pilot CEO that plans

the app out and then make this code

button your senior developer that will

build the app out for you. I think this

is the first time I can comfortably say

an AI agent is a senior developer. Not a

junior developer, not an intern, but

actually a senior level developer.

That's how impressed I am with Opus 45.

That's the workflow I'd use right now.

There are certain times in technology

where things just get kicked up a notch,

where we see progress we haven't seen

before and you need to jump in early in

order to take advantage of that

progress. I think now is one of those

times where the people who get in early

on this massive progress are going to

have a leg up on other people. Opus 45

is only available on the max plans for

Claude Code. So you need to be paying

the $100 a month, but I think it is

honestly worth much more than that to be

quite honest with you. But I think the

$100 month is a good place to start for

testing this out. See if it's for you.

And if you're curious, here are my new

use cases when it comes to AI models,

coding, Opus 45, easily straight up

answers to questions. I like Gemini 3,

current events, Gemini 3, creative

writing. I'm going to stick with 5.1

thinking because it's a little bit more

verbose, but business planning because

it's concise. I like Opus 45. Google for

video and image generation and it is not

remotely close. Feel free to pause if

you want, but Opus 45 is mind-blowing.

Have you been using it? Let me know down

below what your use cases have been.

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