What Boris Cherny thinks about simplicity

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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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1. 27 Jul 2026

   Our readingEvery six months you should delete your whole AI configuration — instructions, skills and hooks — and find out how much of it the model never needed.

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   Their wordsfor people that aren't building agentic products, but you're using Claude code, every 6 months delete your Claude MD. Delete your skills. Delete your hooks.

   ↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 5th of 20 in this recording