Burke Holland works on GitHub Copilot by day and codes with his AI agents always. Early January, Burke posted about how Opus 4.5 changed everything. We were all still buzzing from the holiday-season 2x usage bump Claude gave us, and Opus 4.5 felt like a genuine step function in capability. Burke and I get into all the details. Opus 4.5 may have started the fire, but GPT-5.3 Codex is certainly living up to the hype.

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Chapters

1 00:00 It's The Changelog 02:38
2 02:38 Sponsor: Augment Code 02:59
3 05:37 Welcome Burke Holland 02:04
4 07:41 We're at an inflection point with AI 02:16
5 09:57 Something changed in December 02:09
6 12:06 Card My Yard SaaS killer app 05:05
7 17:11 Flabbergasted by what's possible 00:34
8 17:46 Status quo is a HIGH bar behind a toll booth 06:33
9 24:18 AI in practice for Burke 02:58
10 27:16 Copilot plan mode 04:08
11 31:24 Sponsor: Squarespace 02:15
12 33:39 Baked a v1 overnight 02:31
13 36:10 Telegram me while I'm out 03:04
14 39:13 Not all software is created equal 02:36
15 41:50 Cloudflare takes Next.js to OpenNext 01:23
16 43:13 The age of personal software 01:22
17 44:35 Open source FTW! 00:58
18 45:33 Problems we don't have answers for 01:32
19 47:05 Are developers going to be replaced? 07:23
20 54:28 In it for the means or the end? 04:21
21 58:49 Can npm be unseated? 04:34
22 1:03:23 Unseating can happen 01:04
23 1:04:27 Check out diffs.com 00:59
24 1:05:26 Obscure to accepted! 00:36
25 1:06:02 S3 compatible storage 00:57
26 1:06:59 Nothing is sacred 00:45
27 1:07:45 Resisting AI 03:19
28 1:11:03 Sponsor: Notion 02:51
29 1:13:54 The cheese is moving. How do you adapt? 04:51
30 1:18:45 Will we have artisanal software? 02:09
31 1:20:54 We used AI tab complete 01:12
32 1:22:06 The speed of AI is really really fast 00:42
33 1:22:48 It's our time now (again). 03:54
34 1:26:42 Peter Steinberger and OpenClaw 00:33
35 1:27:15 Polymath's connect the dots 02:20
36 1:29:35 Planning and SPECs are my jam 01:47
37 1:31:22 Opus 4.5 started the fire 01:07
38 1:32:29 There's something about gpt-5.3-codex 01:35
39 1:34:03 Copilot CLI is GA 00:42
40 1:34:45 Get started with whatever agent you can 01:15
41 1:36:00 The list is LONG 02:19
42 1:38:19 Thanks Burke! That's a wrap. 00:58
43 1:39:18 Closing thoughts and stuff 03:25
44 1:42:43 TEASER ++ 01:15

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