Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

Well, friends, the end is here. Not the end of the show, but the end of a fantastic partnership. I started the change law back in 2009 with Benevolent, and the show has been a beloved breakout ever since. In 2012, Wynn stepped away to lead GitHub's API. So I had to reinvent what the change all was. That same year, Jared joined as a contributor and guest on the podcast. Eventually, it made sense for him to join as a full time host with me. I grew into a business partnership where Jared joined as a part in the business and managing editor, and the rest is kind of history. Without going into too much detail, late last year, it made the most sense to part ways. No drama, no issues. We remain friends. Just time for change. And this week is the week of that change. Today, I am solo once again on this podcast, and of course, I'm reinventing what it is we do here. For now, it'll be more of the same. But in the near future, expect change, good change. In the meantime, you can join the community at changelaw.com/community. It is free to join. Hang with us in Zulu chat. It's a ton of fun and to my dear friend Jared, you will be missed. Thank you so much for the many laughs and all the good times and just everything. Friends forever. Alright. Let's do the show. Welcome back. This is the changelog. I'm Adam Stokowiak, editor in chief here at changelog.com. And today, I'm joined by Burke Holland from the GitHub Copilot team, and we're talking about how opus four point five changed everything. This is coming straight from a post Burke shared in January, just after the AI holiday high, we were all on from the generous two X usage bump with Claude and the major step function Opus 4.5 offered. 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. A massive thank you to our friends and our partners over at fly.io. That is the home of changelaw.com. Learn more at fly.io. Alright. Let's do this. Well, friends, I'm here with my good friend, Chris Kelly, over at Augment Code. Chris, I'm a fan. I use Augie on the daily. It's one of my daily drivers. I use Cloud Code. I use Augment Auggie, and I also use AMP code and others. But Auggie, I keep going back to it, and here's where I'm at. I feel like not enough of our audience knows about Augment code, not enough about Auggie, the CLI. It's amazing. I love it. What can you share? Yeah. We often say Augment is the best coding assistant you've never heard of. And that's both frustrating as someone that works there and is, like, very proud of the work we've done, but also, like, inspiring. Like, we wanna go …