the guy who single-handedly raised Anthropic's engineering productivity by 70% just dropped a new podcast.
Boris Cherny laid out the 9 core patterns he changed in his workflow to get there.
the 3 most common traps:
> bloated CLAUDE.md files that tax every single prompt before you've typed a word
> re-reading old chat history on every message: by message 30 you're paying 30x the cost of message 1
> plugin hooks you installed 6 months ago and forgot, silently doubling your bill
i'm confident 99% of you have hit at least one of these patterns and just shrugged it off.
if you want to actually upgrade how you work with AI and Claude, watch this podcast to the end, then lock the knowledge in with my breakdown
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, just listed 9 patterns that waste 73% of your tokens.
in this podcast he breaks down exactly how the model burns tokens before it even reads your prompt:
- the 14% you lose to CLAUDE.md before typing a word
- the 13% you pay re-reading old chat history
- the 11% from hooks you forgot you installed
- why most "Claude got dumber" complaints are wrong
if you're hitting Max limits more than once a week, you have at least 4 of these. Probably 7.
instead of another show tonight, watch this.
my own breakdown based on 400 hours of usage is below, read it after the podcast