# Claude 2.0 is Insane (All Updates Explained)

Channel: Ben AI
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5EbL1UaqG8
Duration: 14 min
Language: English
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[0:00] And Tropic just rebuilds the Claude code desktop app entirely and launched a bunch of powerful new features like projects, threads, mods, side panels, multitasking, and more, which can all really improve the way you work with AI. So, in this video, I'll show you every new feature and exactly how to use them, and I'll explain why you probably want to switch to Claude code if you still use code work. Now, if you don't know me yet, I'm Ben. I'm a three-time founder and I run an AI agency, an AI second brain app, and one of the largest AI communities for professionals and business owners where I teach how to use

[0:28] AI to actually automate work or build an AI business. So, the first thing I want to quickly cover is the new Claude code desktop layout, which got a big improvement. Now, until recently, I mostly used code work because I just preferred the layout and the UI, but I strongly believe that if you still use code work today, you really want to consider switching to the Claude code tab because first of all, uh they've improved the layout a lot. Second, it also seems to be the place where Anthropic is launching their newest features first, and third, because some of these new features are really powerful and can really improve the way

[0:57] you work with AI. And for anyone who's hesitant, it's really not only for coders. It's essentially the same tool as code work in the back, just with much more functionalities. For example, Claude code can work with any file on your computer. It has access to CLIs, and it has now access to all of these new features that I'll cover in this video. And I would argue that with this new layout upgrade, it looks a lot less intimidating, too. So, starting with the layout upgrades, now one of the big reasons I used to like working in code work besides its UI was its side panel because it gives you a clear plan of

[1:26] Claude's to-do list and all the connector skills and files it uses in every chat. But now, Claude code has exactly the same and even more. So, every time Claude makes a plan, you now get a to-do list inside of the chat, and you can watch it tick off each tasks as it progresses. Next to the chat, you also get a new set of cards. So, the environment card, for example, shows you which folder in a chat runs and whether it's a local or a cloud chat. We also have a remote control switch, which, if you turn it on, lets you continue a local chat in the cloud, so you can keep

[1:57] working on that task from your phone. The new context card shows how full your chat is and what's actually taking up space in your context window uh with a shortcut button to compact your chat. And that basically means Claude summarizes the chat to free up space every time it reaches a certain amount of tokens inside of the context window. So, you can keep talking to Claude while it's still at high performance. Then there's also a connectors card and an outputs card showing every file the chat made or used. And lastly, you can now sort your chats into sections, which basically allows you to group chats together by category. To create a

[2:30] section, all you do is you click on the three dots next to any chat, go to move to new section, name it, and then create the section. Then you can easily move any chat into that section by just dragging and dropping it. And for me, this has honestly been amazing to organize my chats because their earlier grouping feature was just not good, and it always took me ages to find my old chats. Which brings me to the next feature, which is probably my favorite, the new Claude code projects or nested sessions, depending on your plan. Now, Anthropic is rolling these new features out slowly, so it might look a little

[3:01] bit different for you. But projects are now on Pro and Max, and on a team plan, you'll see nested sessions instead. But the idea is essentially the same. It essentially allows you to work on larger projects more efficiently. The idea is simple, one main chat or project can start other chats inside of it, also

[3:19] called nested sessions. Uh they can send them messages, they can check their work, and report back to you. So, instead of managing five chats yourself, you can talk to one coordinator or orchestrator who runs a small team of agents or sessions for you. Now, this is really useful if you work on larger projects in Claude. For example, when I prepare for YouTube videos, I usually have one chat to idea on thumbnails and titles, another chat where I go back and forth figuring out figuring out the outline, and another one for the visuals and editing. Because of course, there are multiple tasks in this larger project of creating a

[3:51] YouTube video. Now, the problem with Claude or the old Claude projects was that these different chats had no context on what happened in the other ones. So, even though a change in one of them should affect what happens in the other, it just doesn't know. It also means you have to switch sessions constantly, and of course, if you do all of these tasks in one chat, it gets messy quick, and the context window gets overloaded fast, and you you will lose performance. So, with these new nested sessions or projects, I can just start a new project and talk to the main coordinator or orchestrator agent, which

[4:21] can spin up multiple threads or nested sessions for each of these tasks. So, one for thumbnails and titles, one for outlines, and one for visuals and editing. I can then iterate on all of them from the same chat without overloading the coordinator's context window. I can even still iterate inside of each of the specific sessions, too. Meanwhile, the main coordinator still knows exactly where we are in the process in each of the threads. So, it just makes it a far more efficient way to work on and organize larger tasks you do with AI. You might think, "Didn't we have sub agents for this?" But, these threads and sessions can still spin up

[4:54] sub agents on their own. So, essentially, with these new projects and nested sessions, we get one extra layer of agents above them, a coordinator or an orchestrator. And of course, you can't iterate directly with sub agents, which you can do with these threads or nested sessions. So, if you have a bigger project, I highly recommend starting to use this because it's extremely useful in my experience. Now, if you have access to the new projects, you can just start a new project, and it will start spinning up these threads automatically. And if you're on a team plan and you don't have access to the new projects yet, you can just open a

[5:25] blank chat and ask it to work on a bigger project, and Claude will now automatically offer to spin up different threads for you, or you can just tell it to spin up threads. And whenever you ask for something unrelated in the middle of a chat, it will also offer you to start a new thread, which is a good habit to have anyway, uh one chat per task. Then, all of the threads it spins up uh show up in a little drop-down underneath your main chat where you can still go in and iterate with that agent. Now, there are a couple of differences between projects and nested sessions. Uh as of today,

[5:55] projects uh keep a shared memory, so every thread adds to it and draws from it, while nested sessions get a brief and a prompt from the main chat instead. And project threads can run in the cloud, so they can keep going uh with your laptop closed, while nested sessions only run locally on your computer. But, Anthropic is slowly making projects available for all plans, and we should get them uh in a couple of weeks. Now, very quickly, before I show you the next feature, if you enjoy this type of content, you'll really enjoy my AI Accelerator, where you'll get access to my 30-day Claude course that takes

[6:22] you from beginner to pro in less than 1 hour a day. You also get access to a full course on growing an AI business based on everything me and my team have learned over the last 3 years, unlimited one-on-one live AI consulting with AI experts, and a big library of skills, templates, and resources across all business departments. So, definitely check it out if you want to dive deeper into AI in the second link in the description below. Now, the next new feature is also very useful, and it's called side chats. Now, if you've used Claude for long tasks, you probably know the feeling when Claude is halfway

[6:50] through its to-do list, but you have a question, and you don't want to interrupt or derail Claude. So, we now got a fix for this. You can now just open up a side chat by clicking on the three dots on the top right, and then selecting side chat. You'll notice that a side chat pops up with its own chat window, and you can open as many of these side chats as you want. Now, each side chat can read the whole main chat up to that point, so you can ask what it's doing, how long it might take, or have it review the work so far without

[7:17] addi- adding anything to the main chat. Now, this is also a great feature because you can ask the side chat questions that are not entirely related to the main task you're doing, and it never ends up in a main context window. Now, this is sort of a mature version of the {slash} by the way, if you're familiar with it, which would open up a temporary side chat, but now these side chats are persistent, which means they actually get saved, and these side chats can even send messages to your main chat. I've used this, for example, when I want the side chat to review the output of the main chat. Now, the next

[7:47] one is multitasking or split view with Claude Code, which fixes the hassle of hopping between different chats all the time. Now, with this new split view, you can have several chats on one screen at the same time. You can simply drag chats from the sidebar into your current chat, and you should see an option to add a split view. Or, you can click on the three dots next to any chat in the sidebar, select open in, and then select split view. Again, really useful, so you can work on many tasks at once and multitask between different chats. Now, the next one isn't brand new, but it's

[8:16] so useful it is still worth covering if you haven't tried it yet, which is Claude's new Docs, Slides, Design, Dashboards, and Motion features. Now, Anthropic is basically building its own Google Docs, Google Slides, a design tool, Looker Studio, plus a video creation tool, all inside of Claude. Now, every output of all of these new features is in what they call an artifact, which is sort of like a canvas that allows you to really easily edit and iterate together with the comment feature. You can also easily publish them through artifacts as a live page on a link, so you can share it with your team or with anyone else who has the

[8:49] link. So, starting with Dashboards, which launched very recently, now these new Dashboards can pull data directly from your connectors and now show live data, meaning every time you open it, it pulls the latest data from your connectors to show you the upmost up-to-date metrics. Now, I'll do a full video soon on this new Dashboard feature because it's very powerful. Then, their new Slides feature lets you create animated presentations and slideshows straight from Claude and download them in PPT format or present them right from Claude. Now, Claude Docs is essentially Google Docs with tabs, where your team and your AI agents can collaborate on documents in real time. And I use this

[9:23] to prep all my YouTube videos. Claude Design gives you a Figma-like board or canvas, which is now my go-to for any design work I need for social media, websites, etc. And because of the canvas, I can easily change copies, leave comments, and have Claude fix things. I did a full video on Claude design, so I'll make sure to link it in the description below, too, if you want to learn more about this feature. And finally, Claude motion lets you make animated videos or motion graphics, all in code. It can create really impressive videos without a video model. It's just using code to build these videos, which

[9:54] means it's far cheaper than a video model. And again, because we get the canvas, you can easily iterate and improve on videos fast. Now, I also did a full video on Claude motion and its use cases, which I'll also link in the description below if you want to learn more about this feature. Now, Claude code also launched a few new slash commands, and this is another reason you really want to consider switching from Co-work to Code if you haven't yet, because Claude Code has far more slash commands. Now, a slash command is basically a shortcut you type, starting with a slash, of course, and there are

[10:22] four specifically that are really worth knowing about. Now, the first one is slash output style, and with it, you can basically control how Claude gives you outputs. For example, sometimes Claude gets really technical, uh so we created our own output style, which keeps Claude's answers short and simple. Now, if you're interested in it, I'll also put it in the free resources in the first link in the description below. But if you want to create your own output style, you can just have Claude create one and then add it as an output style, and invoking it through the slash command. Now, the second one is slash doctor. Now, many people have lots of

[10:52] skills and a Claude.md that are outdated or not optimized for newer models. Now, this command fixes that by automatically reading your Claude.md files, which are the first instructions Claude reads in every chat, plus all of your skills and all other settings for outdated or conflicting instructions which might may not be relevant for the 5.5 models anymore. So, in my case, it analyzed 404 files, it found 312 problems, like instructions that aren't needed anymore for Opus 5.5, and are consuming unnecessary tokens. It's just a nice one to run sometimes to clean up your Claude account. Now, the third one is slash skill doctor. Now, every skill you

[11:29] install takes a bit of Claude's context, which basically means it's working memory even when you never use that skill. So, the skill doctor command shows what each skill costs and how often you actually use it, flags the ones you never really use, and makes recommendations on which ones you probably want to delete. Now, this one, for example, saved me about 20,000 tokens, which were being consumed by skill files I never actually used. And lastly, {slash} advisor, which isn't that new, but it's one of my favorites, especially with the new 5.5 models. So, if you run a cheaper model like Sonnet or Haiku, with {slash} advisor, Claude

[12:03] can ask a stronger model like Opus for advice at key moments in a task. So, you get the stronger model's judgment where matters without paying for it the whole time. For example, I use this regularly when I use Sonnet to clean my inbox. I use it together with {slash} advisor, and whenever there's a something critical, it uses Opus 5.5 to help draft a response that's important. And the last one is mods, which is one of my favorite new features. A mod basically changes how Claude code looks and behaves, and it essentially allows you to build features inside of the Claude code desktop app yourself. For example,

[12:36] one that I built is a brain dump mod because I do a lot of long voice brain dumps when prompting Claude, but voice brain dumps often contain errors that jump around, they're unstructured, and sometimes even contradict themselves. So, this mod detects when I've used a long voice brain dump and automatically turns that into a clear, structured

[12:54] prompt before Claude even processes it. Now, you can build these mods really easily by just telling Claude to build your mod and describing what it needs to do. I just did a full video covering uh nine Claude mods that I now use on a daily basis, and I'll show you exactly how they work and how to build them yourself in that video. So, if you want to learn more about this, I'll also make sure to link it in the description below. Now, I've put the prompts and a summary of every feature in a PDF guide, which you can download for free in the first link in the description. And if

[13:20] you want to get access to my 30-day Claude course that takes you from beginner to pro in less than 1 hour a day, plus unlimited one-on-one live AI consulting and hundreds of free resources across all business departments. You can check out my AI accelerator in the second link in the description below. Thank you so much for watching, and if you got any value out of it, I highly appreciate a like and a subscribe. It really does help me. Thank

[13:39] you.

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