Most people still use AI the way they did in the ChatGPT era. Type a question. Get an answer. Copy-paste it somewhere. That's how it worked when ChatGPT came out in 2022, and most people haven't updated their mental model since. Starting in 2024, we entered the agentic AI era. Tools stopped just answering questions and started doing work. Claude Code is at the center of that shift. It's an agent that reads your files, runs commands, makes decisions, and operates inside your actual codebase. Even out of the box, it's powerful. @bcherny, the person who built it, has said his own setup is "surprisingly vanilla." But there's a gap between "it works" and "it works the way I want." Without the right habits, you end up generating "AI slop" you'll eventually rewrite anyway. I learned that the hard way. So I built a simple two-part framework: compounding habits you set up once that make every session smarter, and session habits that keep each task on track. If you want to get reliable, quality output from Claude Code, this one is for you. Link in comments. 👇