Chapter 1: What is the significance of the release of Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex?
Today's a massive day because Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.6 and OpenAI answered with GPT 5.3 Codex. But what is the better model and how do you get started? And what are some tips and tricks to get the most out of them?
Chapter 2: How do you set up Claude Opus 4.6 in Claude Code?
Well, this episode is all about that. This is for the technical person who's trying to get the most out of these models, who don't just want hot takes, who want tactical sauce for getting the most out of these models. This episode of the pod is with my dear friend Morgan Linton. Morgan is one of the best engineers I know. He was an executive at Sonos.
Chapter 3: What is the difference between autonomous agent teams and interactive pair-programming?
He's invested in a lot of AI companies and he's building an AI company of his own. He's one of my first calls when I'm like, hey, which model's better? So we put the models head to head and there's a winner at the end.
Chapter 4: What are the core features of Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.3 Codex?
We rebuild Polymarket, a multi-billion dollar app, but we use these models. So which is the better one? You'll find out by watching this episode, but you'll also learn to become a better AI developer because you'll have these tips and tricks in your back pocket. Morgan, help me understand, by the end of this episode, what are people going to get out of this?
Chapter 5: How do you conduct a live demo using both models?
Yeah. Well, Greg, thanks for having me. Super exciting day. It's moving fast today. Opus 4.6 came out and then Sam Altman put together a quick tweet. I want to say like maybe 18 minutes later announcing GPT-5.3 Codex.
Chapter 6: Which model performs better for vibe coders?
And me, I think everybody else has been jumping on it, playing around, figuring out the differences. You know, all the little neat new settings that there are in each of these.
By the end of this, you're going to know first how to make sure that you are running Opus 4.6 and all of the little details you can change in the settings.json file to use some of the cool features in Opus 4.6, especially agent teams, which is probably the feature I'm the most excited about.
You'll also understand why you might use one versus the other because they both kind of tackle different engineering methodologies. And then hopefully you'll see some cool stuff as we build some demos together that I've put together that I haven't tried myself. So I'll be trying just live with you. So we'll see how that goes.
Cool. I think one of them is we're going to try to recreate Polymarket.
Yes.
And see which model performs best.
They're going to do a head-to-head to try to each build their own version of Polymarket.
So by the end of this episode, you will have a pretty good understanding of how to use the models, when to use the models, how to get started. Morgan, let's get into it.
Cool. Right on. All right. So I took some notes and essentially, you know, with 5.3 Codex, I'll be showing that in the desktop app on Mac because they're super excited about that. I'm excited about it.
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Chapter 7: What were the results of the head-to-head race between Opus and Codex?
I think if OpenAI was... wanting a demo to be done the right way, they would want me to do it in their app. Whereas with Opus 4.6, I would say the Anthropic team would want me to do it in the CLI.
And so there's a few different configuration settings that you do want to make sure that you get right when you're using Opus 4.6 or trying to use Opus 4.6 today, tomorrow, whenever it is that you're jumping in to use it. I've seen a lot of people
Chapter 8: What final recommendations are made regarding the use of these models?
online today on Twitter saying, it's weird, I'm having a problem, like it's supposed to be agent teams, but I don't see them or how do I know what version I'm running? So I thought, let's start by just giving everybody a level playing field to know, okay, I want to be able to use quad code with Opus 4.6. How do I make sure I'm doing that and doing that correctly?
So here's kind of the initial to-dos that everyone should have on their list. Just do an NPM update, see if that does the trick. If that doesn't and you're running an older version, then run clod update. But you should see, like, as of right now, it's 2.1.32. If you see 1.something, you're running an old version.
And then what you want to do is go into your settings.json, and I'll just show this here. So if you just do, like, cd tilde slash .clod update,
So I bet that there's people who are running the old model. They don't even realize it. I have no idea.
Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, make sure you go in here, CD total slash dot Claude. Here's your settings. Dot Jason. Um, If you view this, here's essentially what you should see. Now it's okay. It can be model. If you want to like really be specific about it, you can put in Claude-Opish-4-6. That'll lock it in.
But because 4.6 is the newest model, you can also just put in model and just Opus and that'll work. The key thing that you want to do is, in my opinion, the coolest feature that they added with 4.6 is agent teams. I'm super excited to demo that with you. You have to make sure to turn that on because it is an experimental feature.
And that's probably the biggest confusion I'm seeing people have today with Opus 4.6 is that they are running Opus 4.6. They keep hearing about agent teams. And they're giving it prompts like build a team of agents to do this and this. And it's not quite doing it. And that's because you do have to enable this.
So you do have to add in end this Claude code experimental agent teams and then set it equal to one. Okay. Nothing too crazy. Once you do that, that will make all that possible. So with that in mind, you're pretty ready to go there. Then you can just run Cloud in the terminal and you're good.
For people that are using the API, the one thing I did want to point out is there's a pretty cool new addition, which is called Adaptive Thinking.
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