Eight reasons a Claude subscriber should stop using the chat app and switch to Claude Code's full-computer access instead.
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Big Idea
The argument in one line.
Claude Code is a general-purpose computer agent, not a coding tool, and switching on bypass-permissions turns it into a replacement for most single-purpose paid software.
Who This Is For
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READ IF YOU ARE…
You already pay for a Claude subscription and have never opened Claude Code because the terminal-style interface looked intimidating.
You're a non-technical founder who wants one tool to design, host, and manage a website without hiring a developer.
You're curious whether an AI agent can replace paid single-purpose tools you already own, like disk cleanup or video editing software.
SKIP IF…
You're already running Claude Code daily with bypass permissions on. This is an orientation video, not new advanced technique.
You manage a shared or regulated machine where granting an agent unattended full-computer access isn't an option.
TL;DR
The full version, fast.
Claude Code is marketed as a coding tool, but it is really a general computer agent: once permissions are granted, it can clean storage, design and deploy a website, build 3D models in Blender, edit full videos in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, and spin up internal business tools, all from plain-English prompts. The presenter frames eight reasons to switch from the Claude chat app to Claude Code, built around full computer access, native design tooling, a Hostinger hosting connector, and Claude Projects as a remote orchestrator for coordinating sessions. His closing advice: don't overthink prompting mechanics, skills, or MCP servers, just set effort to high and describe what you want done.
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Cold open: the claim that Claude subscribers should be using Claude Code instead.
00:39 – 02:10
02 · Easier Than You Think
Claude Code replaced the old terminal workflow with a desktop app; most of its commands are irrelevant to daily use.
02:10 – 04:54
03 · Full Access to Your Computer
With bypass permissions on, Claude Code scans the whole machine, builds a cleanup report, and deletes what's approved.
04:54 – 07:35
04 · Built-in Claude Design
Claude Design now runs inside Claude Code, producing an editable board of web and mobile mockups from one prompt.
07:35 – 09:33
05 · Hostinger: Put Your Website Online
Sponsor segment: a Hostinger plugin connects Claude Code to hosting and domains with no API keys.
09:33 – 12:52
06 · 3D Models in Blender
Claude Code opens and controls Blender directly, generating and revising 3D models from spoken descriptions.
12:52 – 17:14
07 · Edit Your Videos
Claude Code edits full videos in Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, including cuts, overlays, and color grading.
17:14 – 20:07
08 · Claude Projects
Claude Projects adds a coordinator agent that spins up local or cloud Claude Code sessions as threads.
20:07 – 22:24
09 · Apps, Documents, and Everyday Work
Claude Code absorbs everything the retired Claude Cowork product did, docs, slides, and SaaS connectors.
22:24 – 25:48
10 · Build Internal Tools
A nine-tool internal business app was built with Claude Code plus GitHub and Convex, no coding background required.
25:48 – 27:34
11 · Wrap-Up: What Actually Matters
Final advice: don't overthink prompting mechanics, skills, or MCP servers; set effort to high and describe what you want.
Atomic Insights
Lines worth screenshotting.
Claude Code is positioned as a general agent platform rather than a coding tool, built for non-programmers doing everyday computer tasks.
Turning on 'bypass permissions mode' lets Claude Code act on your machine without a yes/no prompt before every single step.
One prompt had Claude Code replicate a $50/year disk-cleanup app, scan an entire computer, and flag 357 GB as safe to delete.
Claude Design now runs inside Claude Code itself, turning a single prompt into an editable, Figma-style board of web and mobile mockups.
A dedicated Hostinger connector in the Claude Code plugin marketplace deploys a site and connects a domain with no API keys or config files.
Claude Code can drive Blender directly, generating and revising 3D models from spoken descriptions with no modeling skill required.
Claude Code can run full video edits inside Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, reading footage and applying cuts, overlays, and color grading from one prompt.
Claude Projects acts as a coordinator agent that spins up either a local Claude Code session on your computer or a cloud session, depending on what's open.
Every feature that used to require the separate 'Claude Cowork' product, docs, slides, Slack and email triage, now runs inside Claude Code.
One presenter built a nine-tool internal business 'super app' (calendar, kanban, bookmarks, analytics) using Claude Code plus GitHub and Convex, with no formal coding background.
The presenter argues prompting mechanics, skills, and MCP servers barely matter day to day. His only fixed habit is setting effort to high.
Takeaway
Eight reasons Claude Code replaces Claude
CLAUDE CODE BASICS
Claude Code is a general-purpose computer agent that can replace entire categories of paid software once you grant it full access to your machine.
02Easier Than You Think
Claude Code's desktop app replaced the old terminal workflow, so you no longer need to type slash commands to get the same agent power.
Treat it like a chat box: describe any task that needs a computer (build an app, edit a video, draft emails) and Claude Code just does it.
03Full Access to Your Computer
Bypass permissions mode removes the per-step approval prompt, which is what makes multi-step tasks like a full disk cleanup possible without constant interruption.
Claude Code can read every file on your computer, build a report on what's safe to delete, and then actually delete it once you approve the list.
A single prompt replaced a paid disk-cleanup utility entirely, producing the same kind of recommendation report for free.
04Built-in Claude Design
Claude Design now lives inside Claude Code, so a design request produces an editable board of mockups without leaving the agent chat.
You can mark up specific elements on a generated design, a logo, an icon, a layout, and ask for targeted revisions instead of regenerating the whole thing.
Once a design is approved, Claude Code can push it live without switching to a separate publishing tool.
063D Models in Blender
Claude Code can open and control Blender directly, generating a 3D model from a plain description with no modeling experience needed.
It can take screenshots inside Blender to check its own work and make adjustments based on what it sees, not just what you typed.
Iteration works by voice: describing a change out loud (darker color, thicker branch, no leaves) is enough to get a revised model.
07Edit Your Videos
Claude Code can edit full videos inside Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve, since a video edit is ultimately just a set of files and actions on a computer.
A full edit, cuts, overlays, color grading, can be requested as a single prompt and refined afterward with specific feedback instead of manual timeline work.
The one editing task the presenter says AI still isn't great at is sound design; everything else held up well enough to use.
08Claude Projects
Claude Projects adds a coordinator agent above Claude Code: you describe the task once, and it assigns the work to a thread instead of you managing it directly.
Threads can run as local sessions on your own computer or as cloud sessions, so a request made from your phone can still trigger a session back home.
Learning Claude Code first matters because Claude Projects is built on top of it, so understanding the execution layer makes the orchestration layer easier to use.
09Apps, Documents, and Everyday Work
Claude Code now covers everything the separate Claude Cowork product did: slide decks, documents, and connectors to Google Docs, Slack, and other everyday tools.
Every artifact created inside Claude Code, a slide deck, a document, a design, is saved to a persistent artifacts page you can reference in later prompts.
A single prompt can scan your email and Slack, summarize what needs a response, and draft replies to the most important messages.
10Build Internal Tools
A working internal business tool (calendar, kanban board, analytics feed, bookmark manager) was built using Claude Code plus GitHub and Convex, with no formal coding background.
Treating an AI agent like a project manager, asking it to secure the app and set up automation on its own, worked better than micromanaging each step.
Removing the background from an image and turning it into a sticker took a separate small desktop app, built in about 15 minutes with Claude Code.
11Wrap-Up: What Actually Matters
Of all the terminology around Claude Code, prompting, skills, MCP servers, effort levels, the presenter says only prompting, clearly describing what you want, actually matters day to day.
His fixed default is to set effort to high rather than switching between medium and high per task; the difference isn't worth the decision overhead.
When something useful happens by accident, saving it as a reusable skill is the only 'advanced' habit worth building early.
Glossary
Terms worth knowing.
Bypass permissions mode
A Claude Code setting that skips the per-action approval prompt, letting the agent read, edit, and delete files on your computer without asking first each time.
Claude Design
A board-based design tool built into Claude Code that turns a prompt into an editable set of web and mobile mockups, similar to a Figma file, that you can comment on and revise in place.
Claude Projects
An agent-orchestration layer above Claude Code where one coordinator agent manages multiple work threads, each of which can run locally on your computer or in the cloud.
Claude Cowork
A now-folded-in Claude product once used separately for documents, slide decks, and office-style tasks. Its functions have been absorbed into Claude Code directly.
MCP server
A connector standard that lets an AI agent like Claude Code talk to external tools and services through a shared protocol instead of custom code for each one.
Convex
A backend-as-a-service database and application platform that one presenter used, via Claude Code, to run and secure a self-built internal business tool.
“If you have a Claude subscription, you shouldn't be using Claude. You should be using Claude Code instead.”
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00:20
“Cloud Code is the general agent platform that can do anything on your computer.”
thesis statement, quotable out of context→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote
12:06
“It is the most powerful models in the world, given the most permissions in the world.”
striking framing of what bypass mode actually grants→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote
26:50
“Just turn it to high, bro. It's not going to make that big of a difference.”
dismisses a common overthinking habit in one line→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote
27:06
“I believe in you. I'll be making way more videos on cloud code.”
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Here's a hot take about Anthropic that I genuinely believe is true. If you have a Claude subscription, you shouldn't be using Claude. You should be using Claude Code instead.
I know this sounds crazy if you've never written a single line of code, but Claude Code is not a coding tool. Cloud Code is the general agent platform that can do anything on your computer. And it's the most valuable AI tool you can learn right now for everyday work tasks, document creation, and now video editing.
And if you want to become an actual power user of AI, it's time to graduate to Cloud Code for these eight reasons. And so the first reason that you should be using Cloud Code instead of Cloud is that it is not as hard. to understand as you think.
So here we are in the Claude desktop app. And what I'm saying in this video is that you shouldn't be using this. You should be using.
This this is how you get to Claude code now Claude code looks a little bit more intimidating There's a lot more settings if you type slash you see all of these different commands Look at all these different commands what I want to tell you throughout this video 99 % of the features of Claude code are completely irrelevant.
This is how you had to use Claude code like Seven months ago. You actually had to go to your terminal and type Claude and then you would control Claude here and you would have to run these different commands.
And it was very confusing for people who weren't technical. But Anthropic basically took all of the power of Claude in the terminal and made it into this very easy to understand application in the desktop app. called Claude Code.
You can just type in prompts like I want you to build an app or I want you to respond to all of my emails or I want you to make a design of my website. I want you to create a Google Sheets of all of our financial data. I want you to edit my latest video.
I want you to build a 3D model so I can print it. I want to build an internal tool for my company. You can just ask Claude to do any task that requires a computer and Claude will do it.
Other YouTubers will make it seem like it's more complicated than this, but it just isn't. And so the second thing that you need to know about Cloud Code is that Cloud Code has full access over your computer. So if you're using Cloud Code, I'm going to switch to the best model right now, which is Opus 5 .5.
And I could say something like, hey, Cloud Code, I want to clear up space on my computer. Can you please make a slide deck explaining what's on my computer, the types of files, where they are, etc. And what we can do is we can just run this prompt.
And it is going to create an in -depth report on everything that's on my computer because it has full access. How do I give it full access without having to like say, yes, you have permission. I turn on bypass permissions mode.
But anyway, what this prompt is doing is an entire SAS tool. So there's a tool I've been using called clean my Mac. And this tool is a tool that you have to pay like $50 a year for.
And I actually don't have the full version. It says unlock full version that does exactly what we're doing right here. Claude code can just do the things that you would pay for this external tool to go through all of your files and find things that you can delete.
And so we're just going to wait like five to 10 minutes and Claude is going to have a slide deck for us that we can see that goes through every file on our computer with a recommendation of what we should do. Okay. So after about seven minutes, we have this slide deck.
and I can very easily go through it. So we have 1 .5 terabytes used. I have 289 gigabytes left.
The library... is the biggest chunk. Okay so this app data xcode and docker messages is the one that's taking up the most space.
Okay now that I'm looking at this I actually have never done this. There's a lot of things that I need to remove. And then here at the end it gave me a recommendation.
It says delete these. 357 gigabytes is safe to delete today. Okay cloud code please just delete the safe list.
Make sure they are the ones that are actually safe to delete and they don't change anything. Let's clear up that space. When they're in my trash let me know.
And there you go. I can very easily now open up my trash and here everything was added to the trash. I can give it a second look and be like, okay, this is fine to delete.
I'm just going to go ahead and empty this trash and boom. Now it's emptying the trash and here we can actually see the free space on our computer going up. So the point I'm trying to make here is Claude code can create, edit, and delete any files on your computer, which is incredibly useful for so many tasks that used to require an app that you needed to download.
Now you can just ask Claude to do things on your computer. And so the third reason that you should use Claude code instead of Claude is Claude code is now fully integrated with Claude design, which means you can build very beautiful apps. and mobile apps.
And so about six months ago, Anthropic released a new feature that if you go to the normal chat tab, you can click design and you can use Claude design, which is like this separate isolated website that you can use to create designs. Well, now you can use this directly inside Claude code. So if we navigate to Claude code.
And we create a new chat. I always just make sure it's on bypass permissions. Hey, I need you to look at my website, agentnative .inc.
I want you to rethink it and make a new design for it and present to me a board with a brand new design in light mode. Specifically, do the main page and then the agent updates page. And then make those web and mobile.
And so all I have to do is ask for a design, say to put it on a board, which is going to look a lot like Figma, and Cloud Code will immediately start designing the app. And look at this, it's done. And now I can full screen this and I can very easily see the designs that it created.
So here are the designs that it made based on my actual website. And it is very easy to make changes. So I can come up here and I can actually select the parts that I don't like.
I can click up here. I don't like this logo. I can very easily just send this to Claude and send that.
I can come back down here. I can say I don't like this icon. I can very easily say please choose different font and less horizontal lines and components.
Make it cooler. Anyway, I can just say the changes that I want and Claude will just do them and so I can close them and I can very easily just say Please address all of the comments and make the changes and as you can see here we are using Claude code, but if you ask for a design, it'll just pull it up here in the side and Once it's done, we can very easily just put it on the web directly because we are using Claude code.
And there you go. As you can see, it's making the changes live.
And we have this design right here. And now it's time to actually put this on the internet. And this part of the video is sponsored by Hostinger and it fits perfectly right here.
We just designed a full website with Claude Design, but right now it only lives on my computer. To put it on the internet for real, you need hosting. And Hostinger turned that into one single sentence you type into Claude Code.
So Hostinger has a connector that plugs straight into Claude Code. You can add it from the plugin marketplace. You can search plugins and you can type Hostinger and you can find the Hostinger connector.
And then all you have to do is just sign in with your Hostinger account and then you click open the desktop app. and you're connected. There's no API keys, no config files.
And if you don't have a Hostinger account, the link is in the description and you can sign up with my code Riley and you'll get an additional 10 % off. And now all I have to do is go to the chat and say, put this site online on my Hostinger account and connect my domain. And I can just run this prompt directly inside Cloud Code now that we have the plugin enabled.
And look at that. We can click on this link it gave us and we can see that it is actually live on the internet. And from that same chat, I can manage my domains.
I can set up a business email and check billing without ever leaving Claude code for a site like this. I would pick the business plan for daily backups, a free CDN, fast NVMe storage, and stronger DDoS protection. Choose the 48 month term to lock in the lowest monthly price.
And you'll also get a free domain and a free business email for the first year. The connector itself is free and the link is in the description. And you can sign up with code Riley and you'll get an additional 10 % off.
Okay, let's get back to Claude code. So Claude code obviously has full access over your computer. It is fully integrated with Claude design and it allows you to take your designs, turn them into an app, put them on the internet straight from Claude code.
Now what you can do, the fourth reason you should use Claude code instead of Claude is you can use it to create 3d assets in blender. And so blender is a free tool that you can get on the internet. And let me show you how easy it is to create a 3d model because these 3d models, all it is, it's just code.
It is a file on your computer. And if you download blender, you can take. Anything that you can think of and you can turn it into a 3D model.
If I come to Cloud Code and press Command N to create a new chat, I can say, I have an idea for a new pair of headphones that are very cool. The sides are like blueberries. So the earplugs are like blueberries.
So I'm picturing like AirPods Max, but the ears. blueberries come up with a really cool design and I want you to create a 3d model of this in blender and create three different versions of this open up blender on my computer so I can view them in great detail trust me on this this is gonna be sick okay so it's open in blender I guess oh there you go look at that we have these headphones that are blueberries, all custom designed directly in Blender.
Look at that. And so what I'm doing is I'm gonna use Whisperflow to start a voice message. So I'm just gonna double tap the FN key, so.
Okay, so these are the changes that I want to make the polished ones here in the middle like the middle headphones Can we please make them a little bit darker these other blueberry ones? I want to make like a light a lighter version of that or I want to make two versions of the one on the left So I want you to add a complete new one.
So it's like wild bloom to add another one and then I really like this one. Make another version of the third one that has like darker green.
I want to see what it's like if it's slightly darker green and make it without the leaves on it. Keep the branch, just make it slightly thicker. And there you go.
Like these are files running on our computer. Claude can control, it can actually control Blender, meaning it can see Blender. It'll go in and take screenshots and make adjustments based on what it sees inside Blender.
And notice here so far, I have not once run a command. Like you can just ask Claude code. Hey, I have blender downloaded.
Please. Can you. connect to Blender and make a thing.
And it will just do it. And if there's something you have to set up, Cloud Code will be like, hey, you need to do this first. And you just listen to it.
You just follow its instructions. It is the most powerful models in the world, given the most permissions in the world. Like it is the most direct access for an AI to go crazy on your computer.
And you can actually see here, it's using Blender and taking screenshots. And you can see the screenshots. Look at that.
That is a screenshot right there of the new five headphones. of the exact changes that we wanted to make. Look at that.
And it got even more detailed headphones, darker green, like we said, thicker. This one looks way better. Its original designs just did so well.
And using Blender is not the only thing that it can do in terms of creative workflows, not even close. In fact, the fifth reason that you should be using Claude Code instead of Claude is it can fully edit your videos. And so not only can you film videos and edit it with Premiere Pro and you can have Claude Code edit inside Premiere Pro or inside DaVinci Resolve, you can have it just make...
videos with code. So this is a video that I had it create right before this video started. I just wanted to test a new style and bear with me here.
This was one single prompt. OpenAI just released a brand new product and almost nobody has realized how powerful it is. It's called Dots.
A dot is your own personal agent that you can find beneath start a new chat. This agent is your dot. You can think of it like an agent orchestrator.
You can ask it to respond to all of your emails and Slack messages, and you can even give it a credit card to go shopping for you. But this agent is less of an assistant and more like an employee. And that's for two main reasons.
One, every DOT gets its own computer in the cloud, its own machine, its own browser. And if you ask it to do something for you that requires a computer, DOT will use its own. The second reason it's like an employee is it has the best voice mode on the market.
You can talk to Bluey for hours and it can do things for you while you're on a call with it. And for developers, your Dot can actually create codex sessions. The other day I was on a call with my Dot.
AirPods in, phone in my pocket. I asked it to make changes to my internal business app and it fired off a codex session. So this part, it messed up a little bit.
But then I went back to Claude Code and I was just like, here's my feedback. There was a timeline error in the part about the walk, analyze it and make it better. And then I just gave it my feedback.
It's going to go through the code that produced the video and it's going to recreate the video and re -render it and send it to me. And that's how you can create videos directly inside Claude Code. Additionally, I started a brand new YouTube channel, which is me just talking to the camera and I'm very off the cuff.
It's not really scripted like I am on this channel, or at least this channel is about education. The other one is about my life and my raw thoughts about all these different tools and stuff. And I'm using AI completely to edit and upload the video.
And so I basically upload the files to my Sony computer, which is right here. And then I just. have a workflow where AI takes it and it says, okay, my latest tweet, my downloads, I want you to edit it using Descript, then import the XML back into Premiere Pro, then do overlays, color grading, any final edits you need to make.
to make it an amazing vlog. And then you can pause the video to look at the rest of the prompt. But the point I'm trying to make here, and this is a really advanced workflow that I'll talk about in its own video, but the point is when you use Premiere Pro, when you use DaVinci Resolve, all it is is a video.
And it's a video file on your computer. And all of the edits it makes can be converted into code or actions that the AI itself can take on its own. And since AI can analyze every frame of a video, and it can even use a skill that uses...
Gemini to analyze the video at a deeper level. Like it can actually watch the video and decide where to make cuts. It can transcribe the video and make edits based on that.
It's very easy for Claude Code to edit a video. And on my website, if you go to agentnative .inc, and I'm not selling anything here at all, you can go and click on agentic video editing. And I have a motion graphics library.
And if you copy this link and give it to your agent, it can create these graphics just like this. And so every time I edit a video inside cloud code, it actually uses that motion graphics library. And I would say the one thing that AI is not the best at, at editing videos is sound design.
But other than that, I'm telling you, it will surprise you so much. I highly recommend just uploading a bunch of footage to your computer, go to cloud code and say, edit this in the coolest vlog ever. I want it to look like this, this mess.
Don't even tell it how to do it. Claude code. We'll figure out the best way to do it.
And it will send you a video render back. And then you can ask it to edit it. And it's insane that we've reached this point with Claude.
But you can't do this in regular Claude. You need to be using Claude code. It needs to have full access to your computer.
And so the sixth reason why I think you should be using Claude code. Is it will set you up so much better for using Claude projects when they fully release it to the public right now, the way I do all of my coding work, for example, I have an internal tool, which I'll get to a little bit later called native note. I do this inside Claude projects.
Claude projects is an agent orchestrator. You have your main agent for your project, or you can call this your coordinator and the coordinator spins up threads. And that's, what's basically going on here coordinator.
And then you have threads and the coordinator creates threads. So if I were to say, Hey, um, can you please make an update to the, um, my mind page and make it so the grid is a little bit more compact and just make some styling improvements on the, my mind grid. And so this is just an app.
You may not know what I'm talking about, but this project fully manages it. And so this agent will not. try and do it here in this chat, you can see I sent it to my mind grid update.
And so if I click on this, this is the agent using Opus 5 .5. And this is actually running locally on my computer. And so yesterday in my internal tool, I basically asked Claude projects.
I said, okay, I want a Kanabon view, please. That is organized left to right. And so basically It spun up a cloud code session and then five minutes later it had this Kanban view directly inside the app and I can scroll left and right and it created this Kanban view for all the videos that I need to create.
And here is the video. And so this is my internal tool, which I'll get to in just a second. But I genuinely believe that cloud projects is the best way to interact with cloud code because cloud code not only runs on your computer, you can also spin up cloud sessions.
And so if we go to the threads here in my content project, you know, we can see all these different threads here. And so this one is done in the cloud. In fact, I think all of these are going to be cloud sessions.
None of them are local. Whereas native note, this one that's running right now is a local session. So you can see that here.
If you click on this, you can see all of these ones with a little computer is a computer session. So I can be on my phone using cloud projects and say, please spin up a new, um, Claude code session on my Mac book pro. And if my Mac book pro is open, it will just use Claude code on my computer like we are now.
And so the only reason I'm telling you this is I think Claude projects. It's the most useful way to build apps or do anything and use cloud code. And I think understanding cloud code and getting used to using it is incredibly important for understanding projects.
And I have a whole video dedicated to cloud projects. So if you want to dive deeper into that, you should check it out there. And so the seventh reason that you should be using Claude code instead of Claude is that it can just do everything that Claude cowork could do.
And you can very easily connect it to every tool that you use. And it can also create every type of document and other artifact. And so two months ago, they had a version of Claude called Claude cowork, and that's where everyone.
wanted to create presentations and documents, and then you would use Claude code for like coding tasks, but that's just not how it works anymore. Claude code can now do anything that Claude cowork could do before. And this includes connecting it to all of the tools inside the Google suite.
So I can go to customize. I can very easily go to plugins and I could type in docs, right? So like Google docs and Google drive.
You can just type in Google and you can very easily connect it to all of the tools that you could set up with ClaudeCowork. You can connect it to Canva, Adobe, Mermaid Charts, TLDraw, Miro, Figma, and basically everything that you could connect Claude to. And then anytime you create anything inside ClaudeCode, they get saved to this little artifacts page.
So I can just scroll down here. Here's everything that gets created inside ClaudeCode. And I can open any of these.
And here is a slide deck that I made. And look at how good these slide decks are. I mean, they're just truly insane.
And once you create an artifact that you really like and it's in your artifacts, you can just mention them and say, I want to create an artifact just like this. And you can actually create another one. And then there's another type of document that it creates called a doc.
And you can just very easily open this up and you can scroll down. And this is like a normal document that you can very easily edit. And then you can just have Claude like go through all of your emails and all of your Slack.
Like I could go to Claude code, create a new chat. Hey, I need you to go through my email and my Slack messages. Tell me everything that I need to respond to and come up with drafts to all of the most important ones right now.
And I actually run this a lot and Claude code will just do this right here. And then I got a response like this. I'm blurring out a lot because it's all sensitive data, but it can just go through all my emails and my Slack, just like Claude or Claude cowork.
And on top of all of this, my favorite part about this is you can build internal tools for your business. Now, let me show you something. You'll see here, this entire presentation was created on my own version of Excalibur.
I literally asked my cloud projects to go back to cloud projects, right? We can go to up to our projects. I have this native note.
This is my internal software. Look at how much work we've put in on this. Like we've been building this since the September 23rd.
We've done a ton of sessions. It uses my local computer. It spins up cloud code sessions to work on it.
Now, this is an internal tool that I created with cloud code simply by asking. And yes, I have another video on how to do this, and you will need to learn the basics of GitHub. And we're going to talk about this in a future video and convex or whatever database provider that you're using.
But again, these are just plugins that you can. connect to cloud code and cloud code will fully manage these. And again, I'll be talking about this in the future, but it's not just my internal tools.
I also have a desktop app that I created with AI that you can create with cloud code. This is the one that I've used. So like all of these images that you see here on this board, I have this little desktop app that I can very quickly like remove the background of images and I can copy it and paste it on the board.
I can search up anything like I can type Sam Altman and I can search up images of him. I can very easily remove the background and quickly turn him into a sticker and add him to the board. And that's how I get my images on here really quickly.
And I created this in like 15 minutes with AI. And you can do this directly on Cloud Code and build desktop apps, web apps, iOS apps. It doesn't matter.
And the best way to learn how to use Cloud Code, you don't need to have all this experience going into using it. You just learn things as you do it. You say, hey, I want to create a desktop app that can do this, this, this, and this, and this.
How much of this can you do? What do I need to help you with? And most of the time...
It can just do things end to end. And you will constantly be surprised at how much you can do. And so I've created a suite of all of these tools.
that I can use. This is my calendar view, Kanban view. I have a feed of all the different things going on in my business.
Here's my content ideas board. I can pin things. We have all of my Twitter bookmarks automatically updated here.
I can switch to a list view. I have Excalibur here, all of my boards that I've created for all my businesses. I can tweet directly from here.
I have different topics that I can see and then all of my YouTube analytics. So this is like a mixture of like nine different SaaS tools. built into one single company super app.
No coding experience. I just learned how to use Cloud Projects, learn a little bit about GitHub, learn a little bit about Convex. And I just asked Codex, I said, hey, if you were to manage this and make sure that it's secure and run this for a team, what would you do?
Okay, do it. Go off and do those things. Whatever you need to do, do it.
And let's get it set up and then create automation so that it keeps things secure. And that's what I've done. Talking to Cloud Code.
I've created this internal tools, super app that I use every single day, basically all day. And so those are the main eight reasons why I would just skip Claude.
Go straight to Cloud Code. You'll be fine. It's not nearly as intimidating as people make it sound.
When people just say prompting, that just means asking for whatever it is that you want. When people say skills, it doesn't really matter that much. Whenever an AI does something really useful, just say, hey, can you save that as a skill?
I might want to do it again. That's it. When people say MCP servers, yes, it is important to have some knowledge later, but going into using Cloud Code, you don't need to know what an MCP server is.
Commands, how many? commands did we use none right there's one useful command that you might want to use is if the chat gets too big you might want to do a compact which basically compacts the chat but ai tools are automatically doing those Anyway, so you just don't even really need to do it.
Memory is basically built into cloud code. You can ask cloud code about previous cloud code sessions and it's just getting better and better that like, it'll just have good memory. You don't need to do anything.
Effort, right? So many people will be like, oh yeah, sometimes I use medium for this and I use high for this. It's just like, just turn it to high, bro.
Like, like you don't have time to like learn and test like when you need certain effort levels, like just use high or just use medium. It's not going to make that big of a difference. You know?
I think prompting matters so much more and all that prompting means is just being able to clarify what it is that you want. And since it's an AI agent that runs on your computer with full access, it can do anything. So I leave you with that.
Just use cloud code. I believe in you. I'll be making way more videos on cloud code as we dive out and dive into like more specific tutorials.
And as they come out with new features, I'll cover it right here on this channel. Thanks for watching. I'll see you here in the.
The Hook
The bait, then the rug-pull.
A creator opens with a dare: stop using the Claude chat app entirely. What follows is a tour of eight things Claude Code can do once it has full access to your computer, from deleting 357 GB of junk files to designing, hosting, and editing a complete business on its own.
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8 Reasons to Use Claude Code Instead of Claude
It's not as hard to understand as you think
Full access to your computer
Integrated with Claude Design (web + mobile boards)
Creates 3D models in Blender
Can fully edit your videos
Sets up Claude Projects (remote orchestrator)
Replaces every Claude Cowork workflow
Build internal tools for your business
The spine of the video: each numbered reason gets its own red title-card and a live demo of Claude Code doing the task end to end.
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A week of AI-agent news: Codex takes over iMessage, GrokBot draws Claude-Code-moment comparisons, Anthropic ships /design and mobile Cowork, and Slack gives agents their own channels.
A 24-minute desk-mic listicle where Riley Brown walks through the seven Mac apps he docks around Codex to turn one AI agent into a fully-staffed workstation.
A 33-minute field guide to the nine structural shifts in AI agents — what's permanent, what's changing, and the five human foundations that will matter most.
A 20-item weekly rundown of AI agent news: Claude Dashboards and Motion, GrokBot routing to Opus 5.5, ChatGPT's inline mini-apps, Nano Banana 2.1, and Adobe's open-source clones.
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