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Burke Holland

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

It needs to use sub-agents.

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

It needs to farm work out.

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

In GitHub Copilot, you can use different models.

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

So you can use Gemini 3, 5.3 Codecs, and Opus 4.6 all in the same run.

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

And you can use as many of them as you want to.

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

OK, so now we're in an orchestration scenario.

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

4.6, let's say we're going to do a massive refactor.

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

It might farm out the design work to Gemini.

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

It might farm out the refactoring to 5.3.

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

You might have 26 subagents running.

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

You need to review that code.

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

And so this is my workflow now is to try to automate all of that.

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

So I'm planning and then I'm autopilot with my custom agent, which out the other side needs to give me something that's verifiable.

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

Like, how do I know that you think that this worked?

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

What is the evidence that you have that this worked?

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

And if it's in a browser, then you can use skills like the agent browser skill to have the thing check its own work.

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

That's the easiest scenario.

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

For native apps, this gets really tough.

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

If you're building a native Mac app, how the heck is the agent going to do that?