๐จBREAKING: PEOPLE KNOW WHEN YOU'RE USING CHATGPT AND CLAUDE.
The structure, the tone, the excessive polish. It all gives you away.
7 prompts that fix this:
Founders spend $200,000 relocating to San Francisco hoping to get close to Paul Graham.
He just flew to Stockholm and gave you 22 minutes for FREE.
Founder of YC, $600 billion portfolio, the most powerful man in startups.
The article below, my 25 prompts that put you 10x ahead from anywhere.
Claude Code isn't a coding tool.
(It's a programmable dev environment)
Engineers open it, type a prompt, and let it write code. But the real leverage is in the system around the prompt.
Here are 12 features that make Claude Code programmable:
๐ญ) ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐.๐บ๐ฑ: The project's persistent memory. Stack details, conventions, and constraints load automatically at every session start.
๐ฎ) ๐ฅ๐๐น๐ฒ๐: Behavioral guardrails beyond ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐.๐บ๐ฑ. Project-wide do's and don'ts that apply across sessions and contributors.
๐ฏ) ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ถ๐น๐น๐: Reusable instruction files stored in .claude/skills/. Write once, and Claude follows them automatically every time the task matches.
๐ฐ) ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐: Shell scripts that fire on events like PreToolUse and PostToolUse. Auto-lint, run tests, or validate output without manual intervention.
๐ฑ) ๐ฆ๐น๐ฎ๐๐ต ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐: Workflow shortcuts stored in .claude/commands/. Multi-step flows triggered with a single keystroke.
๐ฒ) ๐ฃ๐น๐๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐: Bundles of skills, hooks, commands, and MCP servers packaged into one installable unit. Over 100 official plugins are in the marketplace today.
๐ณ) ๐ ๐๐ฃ: Connects Claude to databases, APIs, and external services. This is how it gets real-world access beyond the codebase.
๐ด) ๐ฃ๐น๐ฎ๐ป ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ: Claude drafts a step-by-step plan before touching any code. Approve or reject before anything runs.
๐ต) ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐: Whitelist or block specific tools on a per-session basis. Non-negotiable for anything production-facing.
๐ญ๐ฌ) ๐ฆ๐๐ฏ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐๐: Spawn parallel Claude instances that divide and conquer multi-step workflows simultaneously.
๐ญ๐ญ) ๐ฉ๐ผ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ: Talk to Claude hands-free via /voice. Push-to-talk with the spacebar, and the command goes straight to the input field.
๐ญ๐ฎ) ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ: Step back to any checkpoint in the session and restart cleanly from that point.
Features 1-5 define the environment. 6-7 extend it. 8-9 control it. 10-12 change how it runs.
That framing matters because the gap between using Claude Code as a chatbot and using it as a programmable system is enormous. ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐.๐บ๐ฑ + Skills + Hooks alone can automate half the repetitive decisions in a codebase.
If you want to go deeper, I wrote a detailed article covering the anatomy of the .claude/ folder, a complete guide to ๐๐๐๐จ๐๐.๐บ๐ฑ, hooks, skills, subagents, and permissions, and how to set them all up properly.
The article is quoted below.
@SC2Jira@donaldtusk Either you didnโt listen to the interview, otherwise you wouldnโt be writing this here. Just for your information, the interview comes from Belarus, and Belarus had warned Poland beforehand and at the same time shot down drones.