Mike Taylor
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"I rated this like green gold. Basically I think it almost would have been a gold apart from it just messed up a couple of tasks due to poor time management. It's really easy to talk to. It's like Fable 5.1 level in terms of personality. And it shed all of those weird quirks that Opus 5 had, which was what originally made me switch and make the leap to Codex."
▶ 2:37"I gave Claude a way to keep improving the skill and then check whether it's doing a good job. So the way the eval metric works, it gets Claude to generate the writing. It's given a brief... And that works. And it's kind of simple, it's kind of elegant."
"One of the things I've been finding more is that Opus is very good at video editing. I've been testing AI on video editing for a while... I've been testing a bunch and it's finally working. So I asked Opus to go back through all my Slack messages, go back through all of my Granola notes, and then pull the narrative of the video together with receipts."
"Opus on this task, it's much cleaner. It's just one idea per slide. So I would say that I'm still going to use Opus for PowerPoints... At least from my writing, I think Claude writes much closer to what I published naturally... I find Claude writing just spikier."
"you know the Chrome extension for Claude is like one of the main reasons I use the model still as well"
Personal use in 1 episode
"I spent a bunch of time doing video generation over the weekend, and the Omni Flash model, which isn't the same thing as Argon, is just unbelievable... I looked at it and I was like, oh my God, it's basically like real life now."
▶ 48:28Warned against
"When we started testing 4.7, it feels like it was rushed out. At least on my benchmark, it was a real regression."
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"If you talk to Katie with Compound Writing, she is very much in the loop, right? Like it's helping her guide and say, okay, well this paragraph doesn't connect to this paragraph."
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"Fable did slightly worse at this... Opus did slightly better than Fable."
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"You know, Claude, Gemini, the OpenAI models, whatever you're using, they are not trained to do this, right?"
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"I've trained models that passed the Pangram test pretty easily, right? But that is not my goal. Like, I wanted to write like me."
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"I felt like comfortable and safe like getting into a Waymo, you know? It's like it like feels pretty good."
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"But I still think like Opus is the Tesla, you know? It's like a little dangerous."
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"if you want to automate I don't know like a Salesforce workflow then um you might not have access to Salesforce in that session right"
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"He used to lead up the finance vertical for Perplexity"
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"another big leap from ChatGPT to copilot both in terms of GitHub copilot in your code but also just the copilot app"
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"That's where I'd put Claude code. That's where I'd put Codeex."
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"there's also the Google Gemini CLI version"
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