The Week the World Changed

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Knowledge base

“Opus 4.5 Collapsed Six Months of Development Work Into One Week” by Dan Shipper/Chain of Thought: Dan Shipper built an iOS reading companion app without writing or looking at a single line of code. Before AI, this would’ve taken three to six months of developer work. Read this and learn that the real breakthrough isn’t speed but something else entirely.

“Think First, AI Second” by Ines Lee: When ChatGPT went down one afternoon, economist Ines Lee froze—she couldn’t articulate a key concept because her explanations lived in chat history she could no longer access. Read this for Ines’s three principles for the age of AI—think before you prompt, use AI as a coach not a cheerleader, and engineer friction that forces you to explain your reasoning—plus seven custom prompts you can use now.

“Claude Code: The Most Common Questions Beginners Ask” by Nityesh Agarwal/Source Code: Two hundred people with no coding experience joined Every’s Claude Code for Beginners workshop last month—and eight hours later, they’d each built and deployed a working project. Nityesh Agarwal compiled the 23 questions they asked —“Do I need a premium subscription?” and “How is Claude Code different from Cursor?” and much more. Read this if you’re getting started with Claude Code because your questions might already be answered here.

🎧 “Anthropic’s Newest Model Blew This Founder’s Mind—And Made Him Uncomfortable” by Rhea Purohit/AI & I: Paul Ford spent Thanksgiving weekend vibe coding a news tracker and a musical synthesizer with Opus 4.5 that left him wonderstruck, excited, and unsettled. In this conversation with Dan, Ford explains the anxiety behind a consulting industry forecast he asked Claude to generate, why he wants “nutritional guidelines” for LLMs, and why there’s “a fricking smack across the face” when old status markers of software are destabilized. 🎧 🖥 Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or watch on X or YouTube.