--- schema: 1 type: video title: How Andrew Wilkinson Uses Opus 4.5 in His Work and Life description: >- Entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson used to sleep nine hours a night. Now he wakes up at 4 a.m. and goes straight to work—because he can’t wait to keep building with Anthropic’s latest model, Opus 4.5. Two years ago, Wilkinson was obsessed with vibe coding on AI software development platform Replit. It was thrilling to describe something in plain English and watch an app appear, less thrilling when the apps were always broken in some way, often full of maddening bugs. So he set his app creation ambitions aside until technology caught up with them. Then, a few weeks ago, he started playing with Claude Code and Opus 4.5. It felt, he says, like having a “$100,000-a-month payroll of engineers” working for him around the clock. Wilkinson is the cofounder of Tiny, a company that buys profitable businesses and holds them for the long term. The Tiny portfolio includes the AeroPress coffee maker and Dribbble, a platform where designers can share their work and find jobs. Dan Shipper had him on AI & I to talk about the automations Wilkinson has built for his work and personal life, including an AI relationship counselor, a custom email client, and a system that texts him outfit recommendations each morning. Wilkinson revealed how all of this individual exploration has changed the way he thinks about buying software companies at Tiny. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. 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Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Start 00:01:07 - Introduction 00:02:48 - Why Opus 4.5 feels like the iPhone moment for vibe coding 00:08:31 - Why designers have a unique advantage with AI 00:14:10 - How Wilkinson built a custom email client with Claude Code 00:18:13 - An AI trained on your relationship that predicts your fights 00:30:40 - Using AI meeting notes to make your life better 00:35:11 - Don't inject your opinion into prompts 00:40:21 - Wilkinson’s Claude Code tips and workflows 00:47:59 - Your personal stylist is a prompt away 00:53:17 - How AI is changing the way Wilkinson invests in software Links to resources mentioned in the episode: Andrew Wilkinson: Andrew Wilkinson (@awilkinson) The book Wilkinson references in his prompts, when writing copy with AI: Made to Stick Every’s compound engineering plugin: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/video/how-andrew-wilkinson-uses-opus-4-5-in-his-work-and-2f9012e51438 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/video/how-andrew-wilkinson-uses-opus-4-5-in-his-work-and-2f9012e51438.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc.md' channel: everyinc updated: '2026-10-24T01:05:36.121Z' language: null children: [] videoId: WDQ-lMvqx90 durationSeconds: 3778 publishedAt: '2026-01-21T21:25:13.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 0 endSeconds: 11 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=0' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 11 endSeconds: 69 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=11' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 182 endSeconds: 266 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=182' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 266 endSeconds: 276 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=266' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 402 endSeconds: 415 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=402' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 528 endSeconds: 607 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=528' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 759 endSeconds: 860 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=759' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 860 endSeconds: 871 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=860' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 1222 endSeconds: 1353 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=1222' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 1445 endSeconds: 1455 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=1445' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 1697 endSeconds: 1840 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=1697' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 1851 endSeconds: 2117 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=1851' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 2129 endSeconds: 2218 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=2129' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 2228 endSeconds: 2318 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=2228' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 2438 endSeconds: 2549 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=2438' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 2549 endSeconds: 2559 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=2549' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 2559 endSeconds: 2682 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=2559' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 2692 endSeconds: 2786 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=2692' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 2799 endSeconds: 2887 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=2799' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 3000 endSeconds: 3081 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=3000' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 3091 endSeconds: 3197 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=3091' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 3322 endSeconds: 3334 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=3322' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 22 text: null startSeconds: 3580 endSeconds: 3669 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/WDQ-lMvqx90?t=3580' heldReason: rights --- # How Andrew Wilkinson Uses Opus 4.5 in His Work and Life Entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson used to sleep nine hours a night. Now he wakes up at 4 a.m. and goes straight to work—because he can’t wait to keep building with Anthropic’s latest model, Opus 4.5. Two years ago, Wilkinson was obsessed with vibe coding on AI software development platform Replit. It was thrilling to describe something in plain English and watch an app appear, less thrilling when the apps were always broken in some way, often full of maddening bugs. So he set his app creation ambitions aside until technology caught up with them. Then, a few weeks ago, he started playing with Claude Code and Opus 4.5. It felt, he says, like having a “$100,000-a-month payroll of engineers” working for him around the clock. Wilkinson is the cofounder of Tiny, a company that buys profitable businesses and holds them for the long term. The Tiny portfolio includes the AeroPress coffee maker and Dribbble, a platform where designers can share their work and find jobs. Dan Shipper had him on AI & I to talk about the automations Wilkinson has built for his work and personal life, including an AI relationship counselor, a custom email client, and a system that texts him outfit recommendations each morning. Wilkinson revealed how all of this individual exploration has changed the way he thinks about buying software companies at Tiny. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share! Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-to-prompting-chatgpt. It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/danshipper Ready to build a site that looks hand-coded—without hiring a developer? Launch your site for free at framer.com, and use code DAN to get your first month of Pro on the house! 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