How to Use Opus 4.7 and the New Codex

Today, we are discussing how knowledge workers in general, but everyone else too, should be using Opus 4.7 and the new codex app. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitsy, Granola, and Section. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. If you are interested in sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@aidailybrief.ai. Now today is probably my favorite type of show when we get a whole slew of new goodies and get to dig in and see what they can do for us, how our capabilities have changed, what new use cases become unlocked, and what the patterns are telling us about where the world is going. Now yesterday, we got not one, but two big releases, one model and one harness. The model, disappointing to some, was not Mythos preview or anything related to it. It was Opus 4.7. And you could feel around the communications that Anthropic knew that there was going to be some amount of disappointment that this wasn't Mythos, and so it was going to have to be fairly impressive on its own right. Now on the other side, from OpenAI, we got a new iteration of their codex application. It adds a whole bunch of new capabilities and is making some very different bets as compared to how, for example, Anthropic is looking at its Claw Desktop app. So what we're gonna do today is discuss all the new things in both of these releases, get some of the first reactions, and then specifically dive deep on what you, as an engaged AI user or knowledge worker or entrepreneur, should try with these new releases. By the way, if you wanna follow along this episode, you can go to play.aidailybrief.ai. It's where I keep companion experiences, and there is a whole website slash slide presentation that has all the information that I'm going to share here, including some of the ideas for what you should do. So let's talk first about what is new in codecs. Certainly one that people are talking about quite a bit is that codecs now has computer use on Mac. Codecs can see, click, and type across any app on your computer with its own cursor. Multiple agents can work in parallel in the background without interfering with what you're doing, and codecs can now use apps that don't have APIs. Now one of the big ideas that you're going to see is that codecs, which was nominally designed as an app for coding, is very quickly becoming not just for coding. Yesterday, I tweeted that the problem with the term vibe coding ended up not actually being that all coding became vibe coding, but that all knowledge work is becoming coding work, and you …