The 8 Lessons From Anthropic’s Claude Code Masterclass (+ Anthropic Pitch Deck)
The lead engineer behind Claude Code spent 30 minutes teaching engineers how to actually use it. Here’s everything that mattered, condensed.
Anthropic released a 30-minute masterclass that walks through how they actually use Claude Code internally.
The speaker is Boris Cherny, the engineer who built Claude Code at Anthropic. He uses it daily on the codebase that produces it. Around 80% of Anthropic’s technical staff do the same.
Boris doesn’t pitch the product. He walks through the actual habits behind his daily use. I pulled out the 8 lessons that have real teeth.
And since we’re talking about Anthropic: I’m including their original pitch deck as a bonus. It’s one of the cleanest examples of positioning as strategy in modern tech: how to win trust before you win distribution, turn “safety” into a product moat, and raise institutional capital for a research-heavy business. It’s at the end of this newsletter.
Inside you will find:
Stop Using Claude Code Like Autocomplete. It’s an Agent.
Run These 4 Commands Before You Do Anything Else
The 5 Keybindings Every Daily User Should Know
How to Spend Your First Hour With Claude Code
How to Write Your Weekly Standup in 30 Seconds
How to Get 10x Better Output From the Same Prompt
How to Give Claude Permanent Memory of Your Codebase
How to Make Claude Debug Itself
BONUS: Anthropic Original Pitch Deck
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