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TLDR
Claude Code's latest update introduces a new UI, project organization, and Motion Studio for creating documents, slides, and dashboards, potentially replacing multiple subscriptions. The speaker highlights nested sessions for sub-agent orchestration and cloud-based projects, but notes that ChatGPT remains superior for computer control and that some features are US-only or in beta.
Key points
Claude Code now has a new UI with a projects sidebar, side chats, and split view for multitasking.
Nested sessions allow Claude to create sub-agents that report back to a master chat.
Motion Studio enables creating docs, slides, designs, and dashboards within Claude, potentially replacing tools like PowerPoint and Canva.
Computer use lets Claude control the user's computer in the background, but the speaker says ChatGPT is better at this.
Claude Duet is a personal assistant feature currently US-only and in beta, with a waitlist.
Tools mentioned
Techniques
- nested sessions
- side chats
- split view
- computer use
- remote control
- slash commands
- modifications
- watch tower chat
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Transcript (captions)
Anthropic just gave Claude a huge upgrade. It has a brand new UI, a better way to organize all of your projects, [music] new apps like Slides, Docs, and Motion Studio, so you can cancel
subscriptions, incredible design systems, as well as some hidden capabilities that you might not know about. And in this video, I'll cover the 13 that you need to know, including one
really important limitation so you can save time, make more money, and get light years ahead of everybody else. And if you're new, I'm Jack. I built and sold my last tech startup with like a
gazillion customers. Now I'm building my new AI startup online and I should [music] hear the stuff that actually works. So if you haven't already, grab that beautiful coffee and let's dive
straight in. So with the brand new cord, there's only 13 things that really matter. Beginning with the very first one, which is the brand new layout. The first one here is on the left hand side,
you now have a window for projects. And by the way, if you don't see this in the app, all you have to do is come over to the app and click update in the bottom left or in the top left, click claude
and check for updates. And they also did one of the biggest changes which I've been calling for for a while and that's actually blended co-work into chat. So when you're in Claude right now you're
only ever going to see chat and code. And I don't want you to be intimidated by code. I'll come on to that in a second. And then on the right hand side you'll see something really cool called
the rail. And this is telling you exactly where work happens inside Claude as well as other cool features. You can know for example how full the chat is with your contacts. And on top of that
you can also see all the plugins that Claude has access to available in that chat. Now, most people think that Claude code is for coders and nerds and basements with Windows laptops. That is
not true. Now, in this era, we just speak the claude in plain language. And it comes back and tells you stuff. And the cool thing it'll do as well now is show you this really cool little to-do
list so you know exactly where Claude is now in this new environment. Now, if you're looking at your own claude and you're thinking, hey, why does this look so different? The truth is that they're
actually rolling it out regionally, so you will get certain updates at different times. Now, the first thing to do is organize your Claude into different projects. If you haven't done
this yet, head over to Claude and say, "Hey, based on our entire conversation, I'd like you to give me no more than five categories for all the areas that I work in." For me, that's my startup
guide. That would be my YouTube channel. That would be my community, so on and so on and so forth. You don't really want more than five to get started. So, to start off, you're going to click on the
code here, which means that we're now using Claude instead of um chat on the left hand side. You can click the three little dots next to any chat that you have. Come down to move section and then
click on new section. And then essentially we can have one section per project. Now personally I think you should have five key ones. And what I like to do is to pin them and that means
that they're always available for you on the left hand side whenever you need to do anything. But the problem with that is that sometimes if Claude is running you can't go ahead and ask it questions
because it can only do one job at a time. Which is why the next level we're going to look at here is something called side chats. So to do this you're going to come to the right hand side and
click on those dots. And let's say that we're working on a YouTube transcript for this video in particular. Right? It's writing some stuff. I've asked it a question. It's now working for me in the
background, which is really handy. What I can do is click on this button, click on side chat, and now I can ask questions about this entire conversation. So, I might say, for
example, hey, do you think the hook is strong enough in the first line? And then it might come back and say, hey, I don't think that's strong enough. And then it can go ahead and not only answer
questions about the chat, but then at the same time actually also improve the output. And all this means that the main chat never sees the question. Now, a lot of people pretty much just ask the same
question in the main chat. And the problem with that is that every time you ask it a question in the main chat, Claude rereads every question every time. So even if you say, "What do you
think about that?" It's reading the entire conversation, which as you can imagine, the more questions that you ask, the more expensive it becomes. Now, if you're wondering when to use a side
chat, just do it whenever you got to ask a question about what it's doing. If it's a small follow-up, if it's anything less than the big work that you're doing, it shouldn't be doing work in
there. It's like little mini questions. Or if you want to, you can do for/BTW, which is, by the way, this is the feature that it superseded and then you can unlock the full features. And by the
way, I'll put the full resource down below for this entire video, which has every section that we talk about, as well as code that you can literally copy. So you can literally get these
prompts working for you in CL straight away. Now, this is really cool that we can actually ask these different questions. But what we can't do now is see multiple windows at the same time,
which is exactly what the next feature does called split view. As a for example, let's see what it looks like in practice. Let's say I'm working on Stack Podcaster. All I can do is pick anything
I want to talk about. I can click hover over open in and then all I do is select split view. And when I do that, you'll actually see that I now have two separate windows. And at this point, I
can have two conversations and multitask. Now, another way you can actually use split view, guys, is to literally grab something and drag it over like that. And you will literally
hover over anything. You can drop it anywhere. That's a really easy way to use it. You can also click on split view if you want to. And then you can have two windows and they have completely
independent context. They don't know what the other ones do, unlike the one I showed you at level two. Now, split view is pretty great, right? But we're still the chef in the kitchen when we do this.
But the problem with that is that we have to cook all the different things ourselves. We're directing all the individual chats. Well, Claude actually solved this next update in something
called nested sessions. And this is probably one of the coolest ones that they actually dropped. And if this sounds like I'm speaking Spanish or you want to get even further ahead, I'll put
a link down below for my full Claude Code course. It takes you from complete fundamentals to building beautiful websites and systems and apps and stuff that I've never shared on YouTube. You
also get immediate access to my entire Agentic operating system. It has all of my individual memory systems in there for Grobar dot Hermes track GBT ever to get you light years ahead. And I'll put
them link down below for literally dozens and dozens and dozens and hundreds of testimonials that people found inside the group. So the best way to think about nested sessions is you
can actually have Claude almost misdirecting and creating sub agents if you give it a task rather than you directing everything else. So let's go ahead and see this in action. For
example, let's say that I'm working on my Slack podcast. I ask it a question. Turn Friday's episode into show notes, clips, expost, and a community post. Awesome. It now starts with four
helpers. And as you can see, guys, it's put up four different things. Now the really cool thing here is that I can dive in. I can jump in and say, "Actually, I want to get a little bit
closer to what three X post is doing, cuz X is really important." I'll put a link down below to X. I want to come say, "Hey, by the way, I might just click in that and I can nudge it and
steer it myself." And as you can see, it just comes back and says, "Jack, everything has been done like magic." And basically, they all report back to the boss and he just sits there managing
and orchestrating everything for you. Now, one thing that you may not know as well is that inside Claude, you can open up a new chat and that can orchestrate and find for you any chat. So, quick
hack on that. By the way, if you're like, I remember I had a conversation recently about insert the blank, you can say, hey, go and find me this chat window and it will do that for you. Now,
most people think that basically having one AI doing everything is the easiest. But the truth is it can get confused. And not only can it get confused is it can become confidently incorrect. It
doesn't know when it makes mistakes. So, I'd really encourage you where applicable to break it out into these nested conversations to really tackle those projects. You want one boss and
one job per helper. But honestly, I wouldn't really have more than four or five. Otherwise, it's going to literally burn through your limits. And one thing that you need to know is that each of
these individual chats, okay, has its own context window, which means it can increase your usage as you go. So that's the balance between quality, memory, and price. And this takes us very nicely
onto level five, which is computer use. One of the coolest features inside of Claude. Now, effectively, Claude itself can go ahead and use our MacBook apps or anything else on your Windows in the
background whilst you keep working. So, essentially, a lot of people think that when you're using this, and this is the big misconception to you can't touch Claude anymore, right? Because it's
controlling your cursor. Not the case. It actually does it in the background whilst you're working. And it's one of the most powerful underutilized features that exists. Um, let's see in action
with an example. Okay, let's say you give it a question. And let's say that I'm signed into Riverside and I want you to export my last Screen Studio recording in 4K because guys, who has
time to click on all these different browsers and do various different things? Claude will actually go ahead and do that for you in the background, which is cool. And it can also then take
that and send an email and do many different things. It will export it, will click around and do that for you. Now to turn on now to turn this on, just head over to settings, click on
capabilities, and you're just going to toggle computer use. And then you just need to make sure that you have accessibility and your screen recording settings active on your
computer. And once you've done that, you can effectively give it a job. And once you start using computers, you will find an unlimited number of applications for
this. And a bonus tip for you as well is you can also use something called a watch tower chat. The idea with this is that you pick one particular chart that you pin and effectively it can oversee
everything else inside happening. Um it can look over all your different projects and it's almost like the meta conversation that can link and follow everything. Now you can chat to any chat
about anything else. So, if I'm chatting to a certain conversation about my stacked podcast and I now want to talk about something happening with Glido, I can do that inside the chat. But you
might find that it's just easier to organize everything by having one chat that you pin as the master and use that to organize it. You can also then become incredibly more productive by asking it
to set up every single morning a report. And you basically say this, hey, I want you to send me a report at 8:00 a.m. every morning. What projects are currently outstanding in everything that
I'm doing? Are there any actions required from me? And essentially this one master chat that's pinned becomes almost like the project manager of your entire workforce. This takes us very
nicely onto level six which is projects. Now cloud code now has this projects feature which is very cool. It all happens in the cloud which means that instead of your beautiful MacBook Pro is
working on anthropics servers for you which is massively helpful. Of course it does come with a couple of limitations and I'll explain those in a second. But the cool thing is it will work even if
your laptop is shut down. The thing about projects to understand is that it is in beta and it does have a couple of limitations. Number one is it can't access anything on your own Mac, right?
Or your own computer because it's in the cloud. That's one of its drawbacks. So to check if you have projects, all you need to do guys is come on the left hand side and you'll see a projects tab on
the sidebar. And if it's not there, you can join the weight list and I'll put a link down below there for you so you can go ahead and do that. So for me for example when I open a new tab I've got
the desktop choose environment I can come down here and I can pick the cloud and you're going to pick a cloud environment. So these are different GitHub repo. So everything is connected
to a repo just fancy way of saying place we store stuff online. All you're going to do then is I can pick this and now this entire conversation will happen. As you can see there's this beautiful cloud
down there. So let's say for example I have got a project maybe it's working on podcast or working on glider speech to text. I might say could you give me a quick overview of the entire repo
please? So, I can ask questions, but probably the coolest thing that we can do here, guys, I'm going to stop it right here, is if you have the mobile app, you can actually now as you're
going about brunch and walking your beautiful dog and all that kind of thing, you can now speak to it and send it messages on your phone. For example, I now have on my phone. I'm going to
drop a message here and say, "Hey," and send that off. And now it's appeared automatically. So, it's kind of effortlessly blended it in. And it just means that work doesn't have to stop
anymore when you leave your computer. Now, one little hack for you as well, guys, is if you are working on a big project and it isn't in the cloud, feel free just to actually give a command
that says, "Look, I want you to take these project files and put it into a GitHub repo for me and then you can just open up a new session and run that in the cloud." And the cool thing is it
uses your normal claude limits, which are great. Each thread uses more of your plan. So, just do bear that in mind as you go through. Now, if you're a business owner or you're building
something with customers, you're a government, you need to make sure that you're compliant. Now, if I think about Glider for example, we work with a company called Vanter who I've paid
personally and I actually asked them if they wanted sponsored video. They said yes absolutely because I'm a customer. I freaking love this software. If I take Glider for example, if we didn't have
certifications like sock 2 compliance, GDPR compliance, we don't get the meetings, which is why this part of the video is sponsored by Vanta. Now, one cool thing is it actually plugs into the
tools that we're using. So we actually have it inside Slack and it has these great reminder systems to make sure that everything honestly is keeping super super compliant. I get these
notifications security notifications to Slack and obviously Vanta will go ahead and check your setup every single hour. It can even draft the security forms for you which of course you can go through
and make sure everybody in your team has gone ahead and signed and then Vanta will actually give customers one page of proof which is incredible to show. And the cool part is they cover sock 2, ISO
20,0001 and way more. Now, what's really cool about that is you can get compliant with Vanta. I'll put a link down below. I believe you can save like at least $1,000 with that link. I didn't get that
discount link, but I signed up, but because the partners in this on this channel, the section of the video, you'll get that when you sign up. So, I'll put a link down below. Go and check
them out if you're a business owner, they are very, very well worth the investment. Now, with that in mind, we're going to go into the next level here, guys. Now, level six itself is
something called remote control. And I teased it a little bit before, but essentially what remote control allows us to do is essentially control all the building that we're doing from the
comfort of our phone. So we don't have to be chained and tethered to a Mac. We could be work walking a beautiful dog just like this one and actually be productive at the same time. Now to do
this, all we need to do is essentially toggle on remote control inside our environment. Now, if you haven't already, guys, I want you to come down to the bottom left in terms of this and
click on settings. And on the left hand side, guys, click on cloud code and you're going to see remote control. Connect new sessions to remote control. You can if you want to come down and
toggle it. And you can also let your phone and Club.AI start sessions here if you want to. So it's all connected. And then finally, you can also keep the computer awake for remote control if you
want to. Then let's say that I want to start a new window. I can come down here. Now look, you see I've got this computer. I can choose, do I want to have it in the cloud or do I want it on
this computer desktop? Dead simple to do. If I click on this computer and I come down and say, hey, which is how I begin every single conversation. You can see now I've got remote control enabled.
What does that mean? It means if I'm on my phone for example, I can just send a message and continue the conversation. I have it right here. So I might just say, "Hey, which day of the week is it
tomorrow?" Whatever the question is, right? And now what it basically means is my computer can be open and I can now where I'm having brunch or I'm hanging out on my springest manual, I can
continue the conversation on. Obviously, you need to go ahead and prove based on the permissions you have in the chat and it'll go ahead and build things for you. So level eight is the built-in browser
and it's a feature that a lot of people don't really know is actually possible. But the reason why it's so important is because it does actually create new capabilities with the zylude that are
massively helpful. So let's do this for an example. Right? Let's say that we've opened up a claude browser which is dead easy to do. And you just get that by the way by clicking the little globe icon.
Now let's say again I'm using the stack podcast as for example here. You can enter in anything you want to. You could sign into any studio that you wanted to and then access it. Now, the reason this
is cool is because not everything has an API key you can do. And by signing into something inside the Chord browser, you effectively can let Claude use computer control for you inside that browser
without the need to even sign in. And obviously, you can grab things, it can download things, it can do anything you need. Now, the browsing is sorted, we can head on to level 9 now, which is
Motion Studio. And honestly, probably the most impressive thing that I've seen from Claude in the past year at least. Now, Motion Studio lets you build docs, slides, designs, dashboards, you name
it. And many subscriptions that you're probably already paying for, you can probably replace now with Claude. It is that good. Now, if you wanted to build something, you could just come down and
say, "Hey, could you create me a Claude doc to discuss the best research for the best platforms to grow my podcast on." And as it created, guys, it will appear for you here on the right hand side. I
can come down, I can edit it, I can ask questions. Then over here, you have slides, which replaces PowerPoints and various other things. Again, I can edit it just like I would do anything else. I
can come down and it's showing me all the stuff. Again, all of this was one shot with chord and you can do it in any particular design style that you like. No limitations whatsoever. Once again, I
can come into play mode like this, present with speaker notes. I can download it. I can go full screen. I can play around the background. I can do anything I like. Then over here we have
a really cool which is which are pages. So here I can come down and see things. This is very much like um if you think of Canva, you know, Canva has that huge canvas where you can do many different
things. You could collaborate with Claudius, right? You can take screenshots, drop it in, discuss like maybe looking at different thumbnails, maybe looking at different designs. You
can drop it all into this really collaborative environment here and we have various different pages. It is super cool. Then here for example is another idea of the canvas. Again, you
can see loads of different things, different outcomes. Playing around with this, you have different trackers you can take off and play around with. It's really cool for designs as well. You can
build up product specs in this is really decent. And then you have these live dashboards. And if you're running a business or you want to grow your business or you want to impress people,
these dashboards are very incredible. Now, all the cool thing about these dashboards is that they are fully connected to all of your existing data, right? So, this is a fictitious one
connected to, you know, YouTube data, but if I want to manage my YouTube channel, I want to look at my stats, whatever it is, I can see this. And the cool thing is I can share this as well
with anybody else in my team. So, we can see live data. Maybe it's connected to your HubSpot. So, if you got a CRM, right, and you want to like see, hey, where am I at my client pipeline, all of
this can be in a beautiful interactive dashboard. And in fact, guys, this very thing that I'm showing you right now was all created with Claude. this interactivity of this entire system.
This takes us on to nicely to level 10 which essentially is pages that you can share. Now to use this when you hit publish you can copy the link. Okay. And so for example I just come over to share
in the top right hand corner. I can invite them by email and I can decide if they want them to have editorial access or just the ability to view them. And obviously this is just the beginning of
motion graphics. You can build a bazillion other things. I'll put a link on screen if you want to go deeper in terms of how you can build all these gorgeous things here with motion
graphics. And then we come on to the final three and probably the biggest limitation that you really need to be aware of with this. Now level if you like level 11 is about slash commands.
So slash commands essentially are things that change how cloud works. The things that you may want to use quite often and we just use a slash command as a little bit of a shortcut so to speak. So I'm
going to talk about some of the big ones that we've got. We've already covered things like by the way which is a way to have conversation with the uh slide chats. All you do is hit forward slash
and say what you wanted to do. So you can create any skill you want to inside claude. Okay. Once you've done that, you're going to say to, "Hey, turn this into a skill such that when I ask it
again in the future, you'll do it for me automatically." For example, I have a really cool skill here called bit.ly. And bit.ly is great. And all this does is I give it URL and it turns it into a
bitly link. So I come down here and let's say I want to turn glider.com into a bitly link because maybe I want to share it and I don't want to have a long URL. This will now go off, fire off my
skill, and turn it into a bitly link. And just like that, it's come down and given me the Bitly link. Now, another one I really like here is output style. Now personally I like the aerospace
communication standards which essentially is designed to educate you and help you to do things you know effectively under high pressure situation. So you can do many different
output styles that you want to. If you just do for/output style you can select any ones that you want to. You got Eli 5 which is like explaining 5 years old. Error space is my favorite. So let's say
for example that you want really crisp clear instructions. I might say something like hey there could you explain to me for example um how do I actually go ahead and post a video on
YouTube? Let's just say we're giving it any random example right now. It will explain to us in that specific communication style. Look at this. Very simple, very easy to follow. And you can
do other styles like Eli 5, which is like if you're like very tired or whatever, gives you very crisp thing. And you just enter this into the chat at the beginning and all of your
communication will come in that way. Now, some really cool ones here. Rewind itself will undo a bad turn. Context is one that shows you what's filling the context right now. And recap will catch
you up on everything that's happened. So if you've left the chat for a while and you come back, you're like, "Dude, what the hell was I talking about?" Recap will solve that for you. This takes us
on to level 12, which are modifications. Now modifications are basically enabling you to add your own panels, UI, and kind of like systems on top of it. You can think of them as like browser extensions
for your cord if you like. So you can skip hiring developers for complicated things. Essentially, now cord itself can build the mod in its own context, which is really handy. Now, are mods safe? Not
if you download them all the time necessarily. So, it's really important that you only grab mods from trusted sources cuz they do have the ability to access various things on your computer.
Let me show you some examples in action here. This is a fun one here where every chat is a literal pixel character and a raised hand means that it needs your help or assistance in some way. This is
a cool one in terms of context bar. This one just gives you kind of instructions about the chat, right? Like how much information you have, what's happened live right now, what does it all look
like. You can do ones where you click a file and it opens. So that's a really really cool one actually if you're talking about files because often times you have to kind of give CL a little bit
an extra step which is quite annoying. Another one is to stop a delete before it runs. This is called blast radius to help you out. Another one is to check any mod before you install it. So this
could be a meta mod so to speak. What it encourages to do to find out the best mod for yourself is ask yourself what are the mods or what are the questions or things that I find myself asking
Claude all the time. First thing you need to do down here is make sure you're up to 2.1.2.87 87 or newer as a version. Now, if you want to install it from GitHub, you can
literally ask Claude if it's safe. But again, it's better if you build it yourself. Then once you've done that, you can ask Claude just to build me a mod and it will do anything you want to.
This takes us onto the level 13, which is Claude Deter, which is Claude's very own and unique AI. It's kind of like Claude's answer to Grock. The idea of Claude Duet, it's like a personal
assistant that sits in an app that has access to your context inside Claude. Okay, so think of it as a helper that will bring you jobs and sit above everything. Now, Anthropic launched
called Duet on basically the mobile. It's currently US only and it happened about a week or so ago and they're basically releasing it region by region. So, not everybody is going to have it.
The idea of it is it's going to come to you with jobs and it will always ask you before it acts. The classic use case here is that people always find themselves thinking what should I do?
What should I begin doing? But the idea of duet is it will bring a job to you and say hey Jack have you thought about doing this or you haven't replied to this email yet. What are you doing about
this? Now let's think about cluette directly. It works in the cloud which means it can work 24/7 wherever you're at. just kind of like Grockbot. Now, to download it, you need to go to this
website here, which is/prouct/claude duet. You need to go ahead and join the wait list. And once you're granted onto that weight list, you can grab it, but it's only available if you're US pro and
max. But then this brings us on to a really important part of the video, and these are the honest limitations of Claude and where it actually physically stops. There's a classic expression,
never trust a dentist that thinks he knows everything, right? You want an expert that understands the limits of its own capabilities cuz Claude is not a miracle app and it does get some things
wrong and there are better alternatives in some cases that I really want you to make sure you know about. Number one is usage on the cheapest plan on Claude will run out quickly. I still think it's
well worth doing but you may find that you blast these things pretty quickly on a cheap plan. Number two, project itself is currently in beta. So you may experience some prickly um teething
issues as you go through them. the duet weight list. Honestly, I think this is a bit of a let down from anthropic if I'm really honest with you because they didn't release it globally. And if I'm
also firm, I think based on everything I do right now, Grockbot is a stronger alternative. Personally, I do connect my own with my own agentic operating system and I have Gro and Claude all talking to
each other, which is why I think it's so important that you own all of your own data in one place so you're not tethered to any particular thing. One of the other things that I think gives I would
say Grockpot a bit of an edge over the cord is that it is model agnostic. It will use any of the models it wants under the hood. So just bear that in mind. The other thing to bear in mind
here is that motion itself, their motion system is locked to team and enterprise. But everything I've showed you in this video in turning this deck actually is something that you can build yourself
and I'll put a link on screen if you want to master actual cord motion design likes of which you've probably never seen before. Some of the use cases that I can show you there. The other thing to
call out is that if you're building anything in the cloud, it can't see your files like I mentioned earlier. So just bear that in mind and you need to upload it if that happens. Now after that, the
other thing is here, this is the biggest limitation is that Claude is good at many things, but the best model on the planet right now for computer control is chat GBT. It it just is. It is the king
of computer control. It crushes it. It is faster and I've also found it to be more reliable and it can get more stuff done. the inapp browser experience inside trackt. Honestly, I find it to be
way more powerful. I sign into pretty much everything in chatbt and I have many workflows guys where I have cloud orchestrating and it communicates to codex itself, right? Codex being the
kind of app version of chaptt app and basically cord will ask a question will screen control and do everything else and feed back to cord. But honestly, this is the strongest
thing. Little hack for you as well. By the way, you don't need 6.1 soul which is it strongest model. Terra just had a huge upgrade and it is as capableish as the strongest model on chat GBT and it
will save you a load of tokens. So it's 6.1 Terror probably on high or medium for computer control. Give that to Claude. It will give it literal superpowers. It is goated. And so these
are the limitations, but if you want extra 10x productivity, we need to put these into an agentic operating system, which we'll do right now inside this video