How the channel uses this term In this channel's material, the term shows up in the context of Why Opus 4.5 Just Became the Most Influential AI Model, where the discussion centers on building software one level of abstraction up with Claude Opus 4.5 in Claude Code. The idea of latent software is that the code behind an application no longer has to exist anywhere before you need it — it lives as a capability of the model and is brought into existence on demand when you work with a coding agent.