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Hi {{First Name|Guys!}}!
Happy Saturday! Hope you had a lovely Thanksgiving (for the US folks!).
It’s been a roller coaster of a week (or 2) with Nano Banana Pro, Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5!
Here’s what I’ve been testing:
Google AI Studio (Vibe coding):
Wow, I have to say it was impressive. I saw Sirio from IG make a Santa present allocator? Where you could use your hands to swipe and drag presents. So I tried it out for myself but for business use case 👇
I asked it to make me a real time retail merchandise scanner (my 1min video)- it basically scans your retail shelf to make sure the products are in the right place to maximise sales.
And… it WORKED! (I am excited because it worked in one shot - usually I have to do many prompts). I basically took photos of all my pantry items and it made this planogram (picture below) to highlight where everything should go.
I could use my phone to scan which by the way I tried to trick it but it caught me and told me to do it correctly 🤭
Here it is if you wanted to test “Ghost Merch” (though you may not have those specific products in your pantry ha!)
Why this is cool:
It works + less prompting. If you have previously ripped out your hair with the number of prompts you needed to vibe code, this one may be a delight!
You get the benefit of vibe coding with native capabilities like Google search (hello? they own this space), Google Maps, video understanding (they own Youtube), most realistic image gen with Nano Banana Pro and Veo for video - what more could you ask for in an app builder!
Ok so you thought that was great, then literally the next day Claude launches Opus 4.5 and Claude code is NOW in your desktop!
Previously if you wanted to use it you had to do it via the terminal which was a pain if you were non technical (for me it was how ugly it looked - instant turn off I’m sorry 😭).
So I tested this out with Google’ version and I think I like Claude’s one better.
Just because it was well thought out in terms of functionality, layout and practical (it gave me things I didn’t know I wanted). Check out my video here (correction - Opus 4.5 performs better when it comes to prompt injection attacks)
They launched this in Oct but it’s now for Max, team and enterprise. You can basically use the powerful Opus 4.5 inside your excel (uses your Claude subscription) to do things like:
Ask “if there’s any discreptancies in our finanicals”
If there is, actually “make changes” (see image below where it asks you permission before making changes)
“Populate expesting templates with new data”
“Build a three-statement model for our company”
Highlight cells and ask "explain how this income was generated”
Update assumptions (values & inputs) but maintain all formula dependencies + relationships
What you need to be careful of:
Claude says despite living inside your excel file, it can still be at risk from malicious prompt injections. This is why you need to be careful when uploaded excel files (make sure they are from trusted sources and not external dodgy websites)
The risk could be: extracting + sharing sensitive info, modify finanical records, corrupt data
I personally wouldn’t use it for my own sensitive data but probably more publicly available data like property investment statistics, share price comparisons etc.
That’s all for this week!
Would love to hear about what you want to see more of/ less of in my content (planning for 2026) so if you want to let me know, that would be awesome! I read all your comments in the polls below 👇 Thank you guys!
Cheers,
Nat
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