INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT. Spend 10 minutes with this. Claude engineers earn $500,000 a year to understand how Claude Code actually works. One of Anthropic's core contributors just shared everything they use internally. Most developers are running Claude Code at 20% of its potential. Here is the other 80%. THE CLAUDE.md FILE IS EVERYTHING Drop it in your working directory and it loads into every single session automatically. Your context. Your conventions. Your team's entire knowledge base. Persistent. Shareable. Checked into your repo. Most people have never touched it. THE PLANNING TRICK THAT SAVES HOAmerica Never say "fix this bug." Say "search around, find the cause, give me a plan, don't write any code yet." Read the plan. Verify the approach. Then let Claude execute. This single change will double your output this week. THE KEY NOBODY TALKS ABOUT Escape. Press it to stop Claude mid-task and redirect. Press it TWICE to jump back in conversation history and reset. The people shipping 10x faster are not smarter. They just know when to press Enter and when to press Escape. THE MOVE POWER USERS AT ANTHROPIC ACTUALLY MAKE They run 4 Claude Code instances simultaneously. Agents talking to each other through shared markdown files. Writing state to ticket.md and firing up a second Claude to read it. Most people are using one tab. Stop treating Claude Code as an autocomplete tool. Start treating it as a junior engineer you are actively managing. Plan together. Review the approach. Watch the work. Redirect when needed. The gap between where you are and where you could be is not talent. It is 10 minutes of reading this thread tonight. Follow @cyrilXBT for the exact Claude Code systems, workflows, and prompts I use to ship faster than teams of 6.