This NEW Claude Update Changes EVERYTHING (Claude Code From Your Phone)

Riley Brown · · 13 min

Riley Brown demos Anthropic's new Claude Duet app, which can now connect to and start Claude Code sessions on your own computer, and gives five reasons he thinks this puts it ahead in the agent race.

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The gist

  1. Riley pairs Duet's cloud computer with his 48GB MacBook Pro, so from his phone he can list, resume, and message existing Claude Code sessions.
    MacBook Pro Claude Duet Claude Code
  2. He sped a video up to 1.1x and pushed a light mode to his live website, all by messaging Duet from his phone.

What they recommend · 4 picks

Claude Code Main topic · strong yes

Anthropic's Claude AI model used for coding tasks.

"I have a perfectly good MacBook Pro with 48 gigabytes of RAM that is constantly running Claude Code for all my coding work, all of my video editing, and basically all of my planning and so many other tasks. ... I always have a Mac computer running so that I..."
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What Riley uses it for: Coding, video editing, planning, deploying website changes and computer use

109 creators recommend Claude Code, including Tim Ferriss, Ali Abdaal, My First Million.

Claude Duet AI tools

"So this is actually huge. Claude Duet might have just taken the lead in the agent race with their latest update. ... It can connect directly to Claude Code running on my compute..."

3 creators recommend it·Riley's AI tools →
9:50
Amphetamine Productivity

"And just a very quick tip for keeping your computer on, you can use something called Amphetamine. And Amphetamine is a little app that allows you to keep your laptop on all the ..."

2 creators recommend it·Riley's productivity →
10:21
MacBook Pro Productivity

"I have my laptop on 24/7. I always have access to my 48 gigabyte RAM MacBook Pro M4, which is an amazing thing to have access to at any time."

6 creators recommend it·Riley's productivity →

Riley, Greg, Peter and Claire agree on 46 things

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Also mentioned

0:05 Claude · "Not only is Claude Duet powered by Opus 5.5, as of yesterday, it can connect directly to Claude Code..."
2:33 Mac Mini · "I have two computers that I can connect to right now to run Claude Code. I have Mac Mini, which is running..."
3:36 Blender · "There's this Blender shot that I got right here."
9:02 Descript · "I could say, 'Hey, can you go to Descript and take a screenshot real quick and show me what it looks like..."
9:28 Codex · "I will say it's not quite as good as Codex computer use, and if I'm being honest, it's actually not even..."
11:54 V2 · "The project that I was talking about earlier called V2, which is like the GitHub for video editing, allows..."
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