How I'm Actually Using AI Right Now (Including Claude Duet)

The host of The AI Daily Brief walks through his current AI stack for strategy, research, copywriting, image generation, coding, data analysis, and video, then compares OpenAI Dots with Anthropic Claude Duet. CIOs should care because he shows where personal agents add value, where they fail, and why work-focused proactivity may matter more than personality or novelty.

Key points

• Strategic externalization is his biggest AI use; the most important model trait is useful pushback, not flattering agreement.
• For research, he cross-checks Astra and Opus to improve sourcing confidence before publishing.
• Claude Code plus Opus 5.5 is his main build stack for site, social, and video pipelines.
• Dots mostly serves as a context holder; it has weak proactivity and limited strategic engagement.
• Duet is more work-oriented and proactive, but can overreact to low-value inbox issues.
• He favors a monothread workflow: one long-lived context instead of many fragmented chats.