The world changed last week—Opus 4.5 is the best coding model I’ve 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 English, and make software. So I invited Paul Ford on to @every’s AI and I to talk about it. Paul is the co-founder of @aboard and also prolific writer. He authored one of my favorite pieces of technology writing What Is Code?—so he’s the perfect person to unpack it with me. We talk about the wonder—and genuine unease—that comes with using tools this powerful. We get into what people who love technology should care about as the ground under us shifts faster than we can imagine: - Why Opus 4.5 is such a significant leap and what it means - How we’ve both been using it for the last week to build more things more quickly than we thought was possible - What it feels like when the lines between the categories —“I'm a frontend engineer,” “I'm a designer”—that used to define your identity start to blur - What this actually means for programming and the craft of code - What the risks of this are, and what the transition to an economy where code is cheap will be like This is a must-watch for anyone who cares about coding in the AI era. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:57 How Claude Opus 4.5 made the future feel abruptly close: 00:03:28 The design principles that make Claude Code a powerful coding tool: 00:08:12 How Paul uses Claude Code to build real software: 00:10:57 Why collapsing job titles and roles can feel overwhelming: 00:20:12 Paul’s take on using LLMs to write: 00:22:56 A metaphor for weathering existential moments of change: 00:24:09 What GLP-1s taught Paul about how people adapt to big shifts: 00:25:45 Why you should care what your LLM was trained on: 00:49:36 Paul prompts Claude Code to forecast the future of the consulting industry: 00:52:15 Recognize when an LLM is reflecting your assumptions back to you: 00:59:18 How large enterprises might adopt AI: 01:12:39