Claude Opus 4.5’s Breakout Moment & Investing in 2026 with Qiao Wang
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Okay. Here's what I realized over the the holidays exactly described. The the line between general chatbot and coding is blurring. Now when you code, you don't actually write code. You you write plain English. So, like, the two things the coding assistant and and general chatbot is is they're merging. The software mode is diminishing very rapidly. And for early stage startups, there's basically no modes. But if you look at the the likes of, Facebook or Google or Microsoft, Apple, the the modes still exist. The the AI coding agents won't kill them.
Nothing said on Empire is a recommendation to buy or sell any investments or products. This podcast is for informational purposes only, and the views expressed by anyone on the show are solely their opinions, not financial advice or necessarily the views of Blockworks. Our hosts, guests, and the Blockworks team may hold positions in the companies, funds, or projects discussed. Alright, everyone. Welcome back to Empire. Very excited about this one. Got a good friend, friend of the pod, friend of me, Chow, from Alliance. Welcome to the show, Chow.
Great to be back. Or great to be here. Have I been?
You oh, man. Come on. Come on.
I I know I've been on other, Blockworks many the
Blockworks pods. Yeah. Yeah. I have an embarrassing thing to admit to you, Chad, which is I have a I've changed my kind of, like, a I still scroll social just like any normal human being. Yeah. But I've got a I only use list now. I don't do the algorithm. And I've got a list, and it's just called brains. And I was like, I was like, oh, this is, like, really enjoyable. Like, I really enjoy my, like, consumption behavior now. And I and I was like, who do I put on this list? It's like you. I think it's like you. This guy, Will Men Menitis, I think is his name, and Chris Perniski. Like three peopl
Appreciate it. I started doing the same about half a year ago just to get rid of all the shit. I don't I don't wanna see all the political stuff, all that. Like, now it's pure either markets or tech. I have two lists, markets and tech.
Yeah. Yeah. I have health and brains. So, I mean, it's interesting. I had a crypto top 200 list that Blockworks made, and I curated that whole list. I looked at the top 200 list. I made it probably a year ago. It's all outdated. All the or no. I probably made it three years ago. All the people who are, like, you know, quote, unquote, big names, the thought leaders, I'd say, like, a 150 of the 200 have essentially washed out, some version of washed out. It's very interesting. Yeah. I wanna talk about Claude and Opus four point five to start. You've been just talking about it a lot. I think mayb
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