Last week Y Combinator posted an interview with Boris Cherny, the engineer who built Claude Code, about the new Opus 5 release (the full talk). It was running in the background, and I was only half-listening right up until he told the room:
...delete your CLAUDE.md, delete your skills, delete your hooks...
Whoa! What?! Let's rewind ... maybe I heard it wrong:
...for 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. See what the model does and it might surprise you. And actually for Opus 5, this is something we really do recommend is just try deleting all of these things because the model might really just not need all those instructions that you needed for past models. (6:57)
All righty then, time to re-watch the whole thing.
