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
Anthropic's Project Glasswing autonomously found security flaws in Linux that give an attacker full control of the system. If AI can do that, it can find bugs in your software as well.
I hardened every critical subsystem in Acolyte and wrote about it:
https://t.co/OKaNBWov1u
Coding agents make decisions you never agreed to.
Plan mode doesn't fix this. It just moves them into a document you skim.
Real planning is a conversation, not a rubber stamp.
https://t.co/rjvCYJzBZH
The verify cycle was silently broken for weeks.
Everything looked correct — until the trace showed the truth.
Observability isn’t a debugging feature. It’s part of the runtime.
https://t.co/PL78w8GFnW
✨ Just released a new Tailwind CSS + Next.js template for Tailwind UI!
Radiant is an awesome SaaS marketing site template, loaded with fun design details.
Introducing the new CLI.
Install anything from anywhere—add components, themes, hooks, functions, animations, and generated code to your apps.
This marks a major step forward in distributing code that both you and your LLMs can access and use.
Let’s take a look.
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