{
  "type": "ai-unplugged-issue",
  "issue": 77,
  "slug": "077",
  "subject": "Meet Claude Opus 5.5",
  "lede": "Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, with clearer writing, better coding, higher usage limits for paid plans, and lower costs for running AI workflows.",
  "summary": "Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 leads this issue. The featured term is Opaque Recurrence, the tool spotlight is Google Vids, and the tutorial covers building your first AI agent from scratch with Claude Code.",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-25T09:50:07.000Z",
  "sentAt": "2026-09-25T09:50:07.000Z",
  "topics": [
    "Opaque Recurrence",
    "Mark Twain",
    "Google Vids",
    "Build Your First AI Agent"
  ],
  "tags": [],
  "url": "https://mikemurphy.ai/ai-unplugged/issues/077/",
  "agentReadable": {
    "summary120": "Claude Opus 5.5 leads this issue. Featured term: Opaque Recurrence. Tool: Google Vids.",
    "keyClaims": [
      "Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, with improvements to writing, coding, and workflow costs",
      "Five-hour usage limits are increasing on Claude Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans",
      "Anthropic reports typical API workloads cost about 40% less on Opus 5.5 than on Opus 5 in its tests",
      "Opaque recurrence is when an AI model repeatedly processes internal information without expressing each intermediate step in readable words",
      "Google Vids is an AI-assisted video creation tool that turns Google Slides into videos and supports screen recording, AI voiceovers, and avatars",
      "The tutorial builds a simple Evergreen agent from two Markdown files and Claude Code in VS Code"
    ],
    "entities": [
      "Anthropic",
      "Claude Opus 5.5",
      "Opaque Recurrence",
      "Google Vids",
      "Claude Code",
      "Agent Evergreen"
    ]
  }
}