Start Using Claude Code For EVERYTHING (Trust Me)

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Original video: Start Using Claude Code For EVERYTHING (Trust Me) · Channel: Riley Brown · 27:30 · Watch on YouTube

Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, Claude Code, Software engineering with AI, AI content generation

Summary

Riley Brown argues that Claude Code is useful far beyond software development and recommends it over regular Claude for a wide range of computer-based tasks. He demonstrates how it can manage files, create designs and 3D models, edit videos, connect to other tools, produce documents, and build custom apps. He also describes using Claude Projects and Claude Code sessions to develop internal business tools. His main advice is to start by asking for what you want rather than worrying about commands or advanced setup.

Key points

Claude Code is presented as a general-purpose agent that can perform tasks on a computer, not just write code.
The desktop app makes Claude Code easier to use than the terminal-based workflow, and the speaker says most of its features are unnecessary for beginners.
With computer access, Claude Code can inspect, create, edit, and delete files; the speaker demonstrates using it to identify files to remove and move them to the trash.
Claude Code can create and revise website designs, then help publish a site online through a hosting connector.
The speaker demonstrates generating and modifying 3D headphone models in Blender through prompts.
Claude Code can help edit videos using code or tools such as Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, with the speaker noting that sound design is a relative weakness.
The speaker describes Claude Projects as a way to coordinate Claude Code sessions, including local and cloud sessions.
Claude Code can connect to other tools and create artifacts such as slide decks and documents, as well as help review email and Slack messages.
The speaker uses Claude Code to build custom internal tools and desktop, web, and iOS apps, learning additional technical details as needed.
Beginners can focus on clarifying what they want; the speaker says they do not need to start by learning commands, skills, or MCP servers.

Chapters

Start	Chapter	Summary
00:00	Claude Code as a general-purpose AI agent	The speaker argues that Claude subscribers should try Claude Code and explains that the desktop app makes it approachable even for people who have never coded.
02:01	Giving Claude Code access to files	He demonstrates using Claude Code to review computer storage, recommend files for deletion, and move a chosen list to the trash.
04:38	Designing and publishing a website	He shows Claude Code creating and revising website designs, then covers publishing the site through a Hostinger connector.
09:20	Creating 3D models in Blender	The speaker prompts Claude Code to make blueberry-themed headphone models in Blender and requests design changes through further prompts.
12:29	Editing videos with Claude Code	He demonstrates a generated video and describes using Claude Code with video-editing software and workflows to analyze, revise, and render footage.
17:08	Claude Projects and agent sessions	The speaker explains how Claude Projects can coordinate tasks through threads and launch Claude Code sessions locally or in the cloud.
20:17	Documents, integrations, and business workflows	He describes connecting Claude Code to other tools, creating artifacts and documents, and using it to review email and Slack.
22:21	Building custom internal tools and apps	The speaker showcases internal software and a desktop app he built with AI, and encourages learning technical basics as projects require them.
25:56	Getting started without mastering every feature	He wraps up by advising viewers to focus on clear requests rather than commands, skills, memory settings, or other advanced details.

Quotes

Claude Code is not a coding tool. — 00:00

You can just ask Claude to do any task that requires a computer, and Claude will do it. — 01:31

Like you can just ask Claude Code, “Hey, I have Blender downloaded. Please, can you connect to Blender and make a thing?” — 11:59

You just learn things as you do it. — 24:23

I think prompting matters so much more — 26:59

Concepts and entities

Claude Code, Claude, Anthropic, Opus 5.5, Claude Design, Claude Projects, Claude Cowork, Blender, Hostinger, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, WhisperFlow, Gemini, Native Note, Codex, Excalidraw, Convex, Riley Brown

Full transcript (original language)

00:00 Here’s a hot take about Anthropic that I genuinely believe is true. If you have a Claude subscription, you shouldn’t be using Claude. You should be using Claude Code instead. I know this sounds crazy if you’ve never written a single line of code, but Claude Code is not a coding tool. Claude Code is the general agent platform that can do anything on your computer. And it’s the most valuable AI tool you can learn right now for everyday work tasks, document creation, and now video editing. And if you want

00:31 to become an actual power user of AI, it’s time to graduate to Claude Code for these eight reasons. And so, the first reason that you should be using Claude Code instead of Claude is that it is not as hard to understand as you think. So, here we are in the Claude desktop app. And what I’m saying in this video is that you shouldn’t be using this. You should be using this. This is how you get to Claude Code. Now, Claude Code

01:01 looks a little bit more intimidating. There’s a lot more settings. If you type {slash}, you see all of these different commands. Look at all these different commands. What I want to tell you throughout this video, 99% of the features of Claude Code are completely irrelevant. This is how you had to use Claude Code like 7 months ago. You actually had to go to your terminal and type Claude, and then you would control Claude here, and you would have to run these different commands, and it was

01:31 very confusing for people who weren’t technical. But Anthropic basically took all of the power of Claude in the terminal and made it into this very easy-to-understand application in the desktop app called Claude Code. You can just type in prompts, like I want you to build an app, or I want you to respond to all of my emails, or I want you to make a design of my website, I want you to create a Google Sheets of all of our financial data, I want you to edit my latest video, I want you to build a 3D model so I can print it, I want to build an internal tool for my company. You can just ask Claude to do any task that

02:01 requires a computer, and Claude will do it. Other YouTubers will make it seem like it’s more complicated than this, but it just isn’t. And so, the second thing that you need to know about Claude Code is that Claude Code has full access over your computer. So, if you’re using Claude Code, I’m going to switch to the best model right now, which is Opus 5.5. And I can say something like, “Hey Claude Code, I want to clear up space on my computer. Can you please make a slide deck explaining what’s on my computer, the types of files, where they are,

02:34 etc.” And what we can do is we can just run this prompt. And it is going to create an in-depth report on everything that’s on my computer because it has full access. How do I give it full access without having to like say, “Yes, you have permission”? I turn on bypass permissions mode. But anyway, what this prompt is doing is an entire SaaS tool. So, there’s a tool I’ve been using called CleanMyMac, and this tool is a tool that you have to pay like $50 a year for, and I actually

03:05 don’t have the full version. It says unlock full version, that does exactly what we’re doing right here. Claude Code can just do the things that you would pay for this external tool to go through all of your files and find things that you can delete. And so, we’re just going to wait like 5 to 10 minutes, and Claude is going to have a slide deck for us that we can see that goes through every file on our computer with a recommendation of what we should do. Okay, so after about 7 minutes, we have this slide deck, and I can very easily

03:36 go through it. So, we have 1.5 terabytes used. I have 289 GB left. The library is the biggest chunk. Okay, so this app data, Xcode, and Docker messages is the one that’s taking up the most space. Okay, now that I’m looking at this, I actually never done this. There’s a lot of things that I need to remove. And then here at the end, it gave me a recommendation. It says delete these. 357 GB is safe to delete today. Okay, Claude Code, please just delete the safe

04:07 list. Make sure they are the ones that are actually safe to delete and they don’t change anything. Let’s clear up that space. When they’re in my trash, let me know. And there you go. I can very easily now open up my trash, and here everything was added to the trash. I can give it a second look and be like, “Okay, this is fine to delete.” I’m just going to go ahead and empty this trash, and boom. Now it’s emptying the trash, and here we can actually see the free space on our computer going up.

04:38 So, the point I’m trying to make here is Claude Code can create, edit, and delete any files on your computer, which is incredibly useful for so many tasks that used to require an app that you needed to download. Now you can just ask Claude to do things on your computer. And so, the third reason that you should use Claude Code instead of Claude is Claude Code is now fully integrated with Claude Design, which means you can build very beautiful apps and mobile apps. And so, about 6 months ago, Anthropic released a

05:10 new feature that if you go to the normal chat tab, you can click design, and you can use Claude Design, which is like this separate, isolated website that you can use to create designs. Well, now you can use this directly inside Claude Code. So, if we navigate to Claude Code, and we create a new chat, I always just make sure it’s on bypass permissions. Hey, I need you to look at my website agentnative.inc. I want you to rethink it and make a new design for it, and

05:40 present to me a board with a brand new design for in light mode. Specifically, do the main page and then the uh updates page. And then make those web and mobile. And so, all I have to do is ask for a design, say to put it on a board, which is going to look a lot like Figma, and Claude Code will immediately start designing the app. And look at this, it’s done. And now I can full screen this, and I can very easily see the designs that it created. So, here are the designs that it made based on my actual

06:11 website. And it is very easy to make changes. So, I can come up here, and I can actually select the parts that I don’t like. I can click up here. I don’t like this logo. I can very easily just send this to Claude, and send that. I can come back down here. I can say, I don’t like I don’t like Oops. I don’t like this icon. I can very easily say, “Please choose

06:45 different font and less horizontal lines and components. Make it cooler.” Anyway, I can just say the changes that I want, and Claude will just do them. And so, I can close them, and I can very easily just say, “Please address all of the comments and make the changes.” And as you can see here, we are using Claude Code, but if

07:16 you ask for a design, it’ll just pull it up here in the side. And once it’s done, we can very easily just put it on the web directly because we are using Claude Code. And there you go. As you can see, it’s making the changes live. And we have this design right here. And now it’s time to actually put this on the internet. And this part of the video is sponsored by Hostinger, and it fits perfectly right here. We just designed a full website with Claude design, but

07:46 right now it only lives on my computer. To put it on the internet for real, you need hosting, and Hostinger returned that into one single sentence you type into Claude code. So, Hostinger has a connector that plugs straight into Claude code. You can add it from the plugin marketplace. You can search plugins, and you can type Hostinger, and you can find the Hostinger connector. And then all you have to do is just sign in with your Hostinger account, and then you click open the desktop app, and

08:16 you’re connected. There’s no API keys, no config files, and if you don’t have a Hostinger account, the link is in the description, and you can sign up with my code Riley, and you’ll get an additional 10% off. And now all I have to do is go to the chat and say put this site online on my Hostinger account and connect my domain, and I can just run this prompt directly inside Claude code now that we have the plugin enabled. And look at that, we can click on this link it gave us, and we can see that it is actually live on the internet. And from that same

08:49 chat, I can manage my domains, I can set up a business email, and check billing without ever leaving Claude code. For a site like this, I would pick the business plan for daily backups, a free CDN, fast NVMe storage, and stronger DDoS protection. Choose the 48-month term to lock in the lowest monthly price, also get a free domain and a free business email for the first year. The connector itself is free, and the link is in the description, and you can sign up with code Riley, and you’ll get an additional 10% off. Okay, let’s get back

09:20 to Claude code. So, Claude code obviously has full access over your computer. It is fully integrated with Claude design, and it allows you to take your designs, turn them into an app, put them on the internet straight from Claude code. Now, what you can do, the fourth reason you should use Claude code instead of Claude is you can use it to create 3D assets in Blender. And so, Blender is a free tool that you can get on the internet. And let me show you how easy it is to create a 3D model cuz

09:53 these 3D models, all it is is just code. It is a file on your computer. And if you download Blender, you can take anything that you can think of and you can turn it into a 3D model. If I come to Claude code and press command N to create a new chat, I can say, “I have an idea for a new pair of headphones that are very cool. The sides are like blueberries. So, the ear plugs are like blueberries. I’m picturing like AirPods Max, but the ears are blueberries. Come up with a really cool design and I want you to create a 3D

10:24 model of this in Blender and create three different versions of this. Open up Blender on my computer so I can view them in great detail.” Trust me on this. This is going to be sick. Okay, so it’s open in Blender, I guess. Oh, there you go. Look at that. We have these headphones that are blueberries, all custom designed directly in Blender. Look at that. And so, what I’m doing is I’m

10:56 going to use WhisperFlow to start a voice message. So, I’m going to just going to double tap the FN key. So, Okay, so these are the changes that I want to make. The polished ones here in the middle, like the middle headphones, can we please make them a little bit darker? These [clears throat] other blueberry ones, I want to make like a light a lighter version of the or I want to make two versions of the one on the left. So, I want you to add a complete new one. So, it’s like wild bloom two. Add another one.

11:28 And then, I really like this one. Make another version of the third one that has like darker green. I want to see what it’s like if it’s slightly darker green and make it without the leaves on it. Keep the branch, just make it slightly thicker. And there you go. Like these are files running on our computer. Claude can control It’s It can actually control Blender, meaning it can see Blender. It’ll go in and take screenshots and make adjustments based on what it sees inside Blender. And notice here, so far I have not once

11:59 run a command. Like you can just ask Claude Code, “Hey, I have Blender downloaded. Please, can you connect to Blender and make a thing?” And it will just do it. And if there’s something you have to set up, Claude Code will be like, “Hey, you need to do this first.” And you just listen to it. You just follow its instructions. It is the most powerful models in the world given the most permissions in the world. Like it is the most direct access for an AI to go crazy on your computer. And you can actually see here it’s using Blender and taking screenshots. And you can see the

12:29 screenshots. Look at that. That is a screenshot right there of the new five headphones, of the exact changes that we wanted to make. Look at that. And it got even more detailed headphones, darker green like we said, thicker. This one looks way better. Its original designs just did so well. And using Blender is not the only thing that it can do in terms of creative workflows, not even close. In fact, the fifth reason that you should be using Claude Code instead of Claude is it can fully edit your videos. [clears throat]

13:00 And so not only film videos and edit it with Premiere Pro and you can have Claude Code edit inside Premiere Pro or inside DaVinci Resolve, you can have it just make videos with code. So this is a video that I had it create right before this video started. I just wanted to test a new style. And bear with me here. This was one single prompt. >> OpenAI just released a brand new product. [music] And almost nobody has realized how powerful it is. It’s called [music]

13:30 dots. A dot is your own personal agent that you can find beneath start a new chat. [music] This agent is your dot. You can think of it like an agent orchestrator. You can ask it to respond to all of your emails and Slack messages and you can even give it a credit card to go shopping for you. But this agent [music] is less of an assistant and more like an employee and that’s for two main reasons. One, every dot gets its own computer [music] in the cloud. It’s own machine, it’s own browser.

14:01 And if you ask it to do something for you that requires a computer, dot [music] will use its own. The second reason it’s like an employee is it has the best [music] voice mode on the market. You can talk to Bluey for hours and it can do things for you while you’re on a call with it. And for developers, >> [music] >> your dot can actually create Codex sessions. The other day I was on a call with my dot. Airpods in, phone in my pocket. I asked it to make changes to my internal business app and it fired off a

14:33 Codex session. [music] >> So this part it messed up a little bit, but then I went back to Claude code and I was just like, here’s my feedback. There was a timeline error in the part about the walk, analyze it and make it better. And then I just gave it my feedback. It’s going to go through the code that produced the video and it’s going to recreate the video and re-render it and send it to me. And that’s how you can create videos directly inside Claude code. Additionally, I started a brand new YouTube channel, which is me just talking to the camera and I’m very off the cuff. It’s not really scripted like I am on this channel or at least this

15:04 channel’s about education, the other one is about my life and my raw thoughts about all these different tools and stuff and I’m using AI completely to edit and upload the video. And so I basically upload the files to my Sony computer, which is right here and then I I have a workflow where AI takes it and it says, “Okay, my latest tweet, my downloads, I want you to edit it using Descript, then import the XML back into Premiere Pro, then do overlays, color grading, any final edits you need to

15:35 make to make it an amazing vlog.” And then you can pause the video to look at the rest of the prompt, but the point I’m trying to make here, and this is a really advanced workflow that I’ll talk about in its own video, but the point is when you use Premiere Pro, when you use DaVinci Resolve, all it is is a video. Uh and it’s a video file on your computer. And all of the edits it makes can be converted into code or actions that the AI itself can take on its own. And since AI can analyze every frame of a video, and it can even use a skill that uses Gemini to analyze the video at

16:07 a deeper level, like it can actually watch the video and decide where to make cuts. It can transcribe the video and make edits based on that, it’s very easy for Claude Code to edit a video. And on my website, if you go to agentnative.ink, and I’m not selling anything here at all, you can go and click on agentic video editing, and I have a motion graphics library. And if you copy this link and give it to your agent, it can create these graphics just like this. And so every time I edit a video inside Claude Code, it actually

16:37 uses that motion graphics library. And I would say the one thing that AI is not the best at at editing videos is sound design, but other than that, I’m telling you it will surprise you so much. I highly recommend just uploading a bunch of footage to your computer, go to Claude Code and say, “Edit this in the coolest vlog ever. I want it to look like this, this, this.” Don’t even tell it how to do it. Claude Code will figure out the best way to do it, and it will send you a video render back, and then you can ask it to edit it. And it’s insane that we’ve reached this point

17:08 with Claude, but you can’t do this in regular Claude. You need to be using Claude Code. It needs to have full access to your computer. And so the sixth reason why I think you should be using Claude Code is it will set you up so much better for using Claude projects when they fully release it to the public. Right now, the way I do all of my coding work, for example, I have an internal tool, which I’ll get to a little bit later, called Native Note. I do this inside Claude projects. Claude projects is an agent orchestrator. You

17:39 have your main agent for your project, or you can call this your coordinator, and the coordinator spins up threads. That’s what’s basically going on here. Coordinator, and then you have threads. And the coordinator creates threads. So, if I were to say, “Hey, um can you please make an update to the um My Mind page and make it so the grid is a little bit more compact and just make some styling improvements on the My Mind grid.” And so, this is just an app. You may not know what I’m talking about, but this

18:10 project fully manages it. And so, this agent will not try and do it here in this chat. You can see I sent it to My Mind grid update. And so, if I click on this, this is the agent using Opus 5.5, and this is actually running locally on my computer. And so, yesterday in my internal tool, I basically asked Claude projects, I said, “Okay, I want a Kanban view, please, that is organized left to right.” And so, basically, it spun up a Claude Code

18:41 session, and then 5 minutes later it had this Kanban view directly inside the app, and I can scroll left and right, and it created this Kanban view for all the videos that I need to create. And here is the video. And so, this is my internal tool, which I’ll get to in just a second, but I genuinely believe that Claude projects is the best way to interact with Claude Code. Because Claude Code not only runs on your computer, you can also spin up cloud sessions. And so, if we go to the threads here in my Claude project, you

19:13 know, we can see all these different threads here. And so this one is done in the cloud. In fact, I think all of these are going to be cloud sessions. None of them are local, whereas native note, this one that’s running right now is a local session. So you can see that here. If you click on this, you can see all of these ones with a little computer is a computer session. So I can be on my phone using Claude projects and say, “Please spin up a new Claude code session on my MacBook Pro.” And if my MacBook Pro is open, it will just use Claude code on my computer like

19:45 we are now. And so the only reason I’m telling you this is I think Claude projects is the most useful way to build apps or do anything and use Claude code. And I think understanding Claude code and getting used to using it is incredibly important for understanding projects. And I have a whole video dedicated to Claude project. So if you want to dive deeper into that, you should check it out there. And so the seventh reason that you should be using Claude code instead of Claude is that it can just do everything that Claude co-work could do. And you can very

20:17 easily connect it to every tool that you use. And it can also create every type of document and other artifact. And so 2 months ago, they had a version of Claude called Claude co-work. And that’s where everyone wanted to create presentations and documents. And then you would use Claude code for like coding tasks. But that’s just not how it works anymore. Claude code can now do anything that Claude co-work could do before. And this includes connecting it to all of the

20:49 tools inside the Google suite. So I can go to customize. I can very easily go to plugins and I could type in docs, right? So like Google docs and Google Drive. You can just type in Google and you can very easily connect it to all of the tools that you could set up with Claude Cowork. You can connect it to Canva, Adobe, Mermaid charts, TL Draw, Miro, Figma, and basically everything that you could connect Claude to. And then anytime you create anything inside Claude Code, they

21:19 get saved to this little artifacts page. So, I can just scroll down here. Here’s everything that gets created inside Claude Code, and I can open any of these. And here is a slide deck that I made. And look at how good these slide decks are. I mean, they’re just truly insane. And once you create an artifact that you really like and it’s in your artifacts, you can just mention that and say, “I want to create an artifact just like this.” And you can actually create another one. And then there’s another type of document that it creates called a doc, and you can just very easily open

21:50 this up. And you can scroll down, and this is like a normal document that you can very easily edit. And then you can just have Claude like go through all of your emails and all of your Slack. Like I could go to Claude Code, create a new chat, “Hey, I need you to go through my email and my Slack messages. Tell me everything that I need to respond to and come up with drafts to all of the most important ones right now.” And I actually run this a lot, and Claude Code will just do this right here. And then I got a response like this. I’m blurring out a lot because it’s all sensitive data, but it can just go through all my

22:21 emails and my Slack just like Claude or Claude Cowork. And on top of all of this, my favorite part about this is you can build internal tools for your business. Now, let me show you something. You’ll see here, this entire presentation was created on my own version of Excalidraw. I literally asked my Claude Projects to go back to Claude Projects, right? We can go to up to our projects. I have this native note. This is my internal software. Look at how much work we’ve put in on this. Like we’ve been building this since the

22:52 September 23rd. We’ve done a ton of sessions. It uses my local computer. It spins up Claude Code sessions to work on it. Now, this is an internal tool that I created with Claude code simply by asking. And yes, I have another video on how to do this and you will need to learn the basics of GitHub and we’re going to talk about this in a future video and convex or whatever database provider that you’re using. But again, these are just plugins that you can connect to Claude code and Claude code

23:22 will fully manage these. And again, I’ll be talking about this in the future. But it’s not just my internal tools. I also have a desktop app that I created with AI that you can create with Claude code. This is the one that I’ve used. So like all of these images that you see here on this board, I have this little desktop app that I can very quickly like remove the background of images and I can copy it and paste it on the board. Um I can search up anything like I can type Sam Altman

23:53 and I can search up images of him. I can very easily remove the background and quickly turn him into a sticker and add him to the board. And that’s how I get my images on here really quickly and I created this in like 15 minutes with AI. And you can do this directly on Claude code and build desktop apps, web apps, iOS apps, it doesn’t matter. And the best way to learn how to use Claude code, you don’t need to have all this experience going into using it. You just

24:23 learn things as you do it. You say, “Hey, I want to create a desktop app that can do this, this, this, and this, and this. How much of this can you do? What do I need to help you with?” And most of the time it can just do things end-to-end and you will constantly be surprised at how much you can do. And so I’ve created a suite of all of these tools that I can use. This is my calendar view, Kanban view. I have a feed of all the different things going on in my business. Here’s my content ideas board. I can pin things. We have all of my

24:55 Twitter bookmarks automatically updated here. I can switch to a list view. I have Excalidraw here all of my boards that I’ve created for all of my businesses. I can tweet directly from here. I have different topics that I can see and then all of my YouTube analytics. So, this is like a mixture of like nine different SaaS tools built into one single company super app. No coding experience. I just learned how to use Claude projects, learn a little bit about GitHub, learn a little bit about uh Convex, and I just asked Codex. I said, “Hey, if you were to manage this

25:26 and make sure that it’s secure and run this for a team, what would you do? Okay, do it. Go off and do those things. Whatever you need to do, do it, and let’s get it set up, and then create automation so that it keeps things secure.” And that’s what I’ve done. Talking to Claude Code, I’ve created this internal tools super app that I use every single day, basically all day. And so, those are the main eight reasons why I would just skip Claude, go straight to Claude Code. You’ll be fine. It’s not

25:56 nearly as intimidating as people make it sound. When people just say prompting, that just means asking for whatever it is that you want. When people say skills, it doesn’t really matter that much. Whenever an AI does something really useful, just say, “Hey, can you save that as a skill? I might want to do it again.” That’s it. When people say MCP servers, yes, it is important to have some knowledge later, but going into using Claude Code, you don’t need to know what an MCP server is. Um commands, how many commands did we use? None, right? There’s one useful command that you might want to use is if the

26:27 chat gets too big, you might want to do a compact, which basically compacts the chat. But, AI tools are automatically doing those anyways, so you just don’t even really need to do it. Memory is basically built into Claude Code. You can ask Claude Code about previous Claude Code sessions, and it’s just getting better and better that like it’ll just have good memory. You don’t need to do anything. Effort, right? So many people are be like, “Oh, yeah, if I sometimes I use medium for this and I use high for this. It’s just like just turn it to high, bro. Like like you don’t have time to like learn and test

26:59 like when you need certain effort levels. Like just use high or just use medium. It’s not going to make that big of a difference. You know, I think prompting matters so much more and all of that prompting means is just being able to clarify what it is that you want. And since it’s an AI agent that runs on your computer with full access, it can do anything. So, I leave you with that. Just use Cloud Code. I believe in you. I’ll be making way more videos on Cloud Code as we dive out dive into like more specific tutorials and as they come out with new features, I’ll cover it

27:30 right here on this channel. Thanks for watching. I’ll see you here in the next one.