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Burke Holland

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The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

So let's talk about the first one first, and we'll talk about the second.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

So for my Greenfield projects, I've experimented a lot with composing workflows that allow me to get from, OK, I have nothing, and I want to get to this end point.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

What are the things that I need to do along the way, and how involved do I need to be?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

Because you have all these different, you have the agentic tool itself, whether that's VS Code or the Copilot CLI.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And then you have, or others, sorry, right?

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

Cursor, Cloud Code, there's many others.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And then you have like MCP servers, which is how your agent can talk to GitHub or how it can talk to Figma.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And then you have skills, which have serious overlap with MCP servers.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And then you have instruction files.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And then you have custom agents, which is you basically just overriding the agent behavior and defining workflows.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And it's all very confusing for people because...

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

Because they don't know what they're supposed to do with these things.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And the honest truth is that neither do the people who are building them.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

We don't know what the future looks like.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

All we can do is look at what building blocks we could create, create them, and then see how people put them together and then iterate.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

That's the honest truth.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

And so that's what I try to do is figure out what does a workflow look like for me.

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

My workflow is I'm now fully into the Copilot CLI, using it within VS Code, but I start off with

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
Opus 4.5 changed everything (Interview)

um, a plan where I basically talk to the CLI and I, I tell it kind of what I'm, what I want.