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Claude Code

Claude Code is Anthropic’s terminal coding agent, and it has been my daily driver since the week it stopped feeling like a toy. This hub collects everything I’ve written about actually using it: writing a CLAUDE.md that doesn’t make it dumber, when to reach for hooks, skills, slash commands or MCP servers, keeping it from wandering around your codebase like a tourist, and the production bombs it nearly shipped while I wasn’t looking.

No “ten prompts that will change your life.” Just field notes from building and running real SaaS with it. New here? Start with the three picks below.

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Best of Claude Code

If you read three, read these. Picked by me, not an algorithm, which is either reassuring or not.

  1. Your CLAUDE.md Is Making Claude Dumber

    ETH Zurich research shows bloated CLAUDE.md files reduce AI coding performance and increase costs. Here's what to keep, what to kill, and why 60 lines beats 800.

  2. I Spent Weeks Confused About Claude Code's 5 Concepts. Here's the Mental Model That Finally Clicked.

    Slash commands, skills, agents, MCP servers, plugins — I kept building three things for the same task until this mental model clicked.

  3. Claude Code Is Incredible. It Also Almost Shipped 8 Production Bombs Last Week.

    What 15 years of production scars are still good for

All posts

Newest first.

June 2026

  1. The "MCP Is Dead" Fight Is a Category Error

    Essay,

  2. How to Build a SaaS with Claude Code in a Weekend (Not a Quarter)

    Essay,

April 2026

  1. Claude Overreaches. Codex Underreaches. I'm Still Figuring Out How to Use Both.

    Essay,

  2. Your CLAUDE.md Is Making Claude Dumber

    Essay,

  3. The Claude Code Leak Revealed a Token Drain Bug. The Real Problem Is Bigger.

    Essay,

March 2026

  1. What Chinese Factories Taught Me About Prompting Claude Code

    Essay,

  2. Claude Code Has Been Navigating Your Codebase Like a Tourist With No Map

    Essay,

February 2026

  1. While You Panic About AI Taking Jobs, I Built $200/Mo Tools

    Essay,

January 2026

  1. Claude Code Is Incredible. It Also Almost Shipped 8 Production Bombs Last Week.

    Essay,

  2. I Found a Business Idea and Shipped It in One Claude Code Session

    Essay,

  3. I Found a Cryptominer in My Client's Production Cluster. Claude Code Found the Attacker.

    Essay,

  4. Claude Code Hooks: The Feature You're Ignoring While Babysitting Your AI

    Essay,

December 2025

  1. Stop Making Claude Code Guess

    Essay,

  2. How to Let Claude Code Explore Without Losing Control

    Essay,

  3. Claude Code Skills vs Slash Commands: Which One to Use

    Essay,

  4. I Spent Weeks Confused About Claude Code's 5 Concepts. Here's the Mental Model That Finally Clicked.

    Essay,

November 2025

  1. Why Your AI Wakes Up Every Morning With No Memory (And how to fix it)

    Essay,

October 2025

  1. When Claude Code Goes Down: A Meditation on Modern Dependency

    Essay,

Other topics

  • AI coding

    What changes when the code writes itself, and what stubbornly doesn't.

  • Craft

    The job under the job: meetings, bad code, taste, and throwing things away.

  • SaaS

    Solo SaaS without the ceremony: pricing, stacks, monitoring, small bets.

  • Kubernetes

    Years of clusters, and why I now mostly bet against them for indie work.