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I spent $697 on Claude Code last month. Not on a course about it. Not on a wrapper tool. On raw API usage. Tokens in, tokens out. Building things. Some of that money was well spent. Some of it was burnt on stupid mistakes I could have avoided. Here's what I learned. 1. Start with a PRD, not a prompt. My most expensive sessions were the ones where I opened Claude Code and typed "build me a dashboard." No spec. No requirements. No constraints. The AI happily built something. Then I realised it...

I've been running Claude Code as my primary coding tool for months now. Most people install it, type a prompt, and hope for the best. Here's what happened when I stopped doing that. I found 7 workflows that changed how I build with AI. None of them are obvious from the docs. 1. Start every session in plan mode Claude Code kept going down time-consuming, token-burning tangents that took hours to unravel. Now I start every session in plan mode. It presents a markdown doc of exactly what it's...

I got an email from James Patterson's team last week. They'd read my book. They loved the part about plucking chickens before becoming a writer. They referenced my podcast, my USA Today bestseller, my Become a Writer Today brand. Here's what he opened with: > "My name is James Patterson. I'm perhaps best known for my thrillers Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Michael Bennett but what fewer people know is that I've spent decades thinking about productivity, about how to get things done...

Claude Code has an insanely powerful... and dangerous feature. It's called "dangerously allow browser." It auto-accepts every edit without asking permission. I turned it on because I was tired of clicking approve like one of those wooden drinking bird toys. Day 1: Fast. Exhilarating. Day 3: My codebase had 14 files I didn't recognise. Day 5: I found a function that called itself in an infinite loop. I didn't panic. But I did spend an entire evening untangling changes I'd never reviewed....

Claude Code has a command most people don't know about. Type /insights. That's it. It reviews all your coding sessions from the last 7 days. Then it generates an HTML report. What you worked on. What mistakes you made. Where you wasted time. I ran it last week. Here's what it told me: "A single 6-hour session is far less effective than starting a new chat for each job." I'd been running marathon coding sessions. Open Claude Code in the morning. Work until lunch. Keep going after lunch. Same...

I quit using ChatGPT for coding. Not because it's bad. Not because I'm an AI snob. Because I kept switching tabs. Here's what happened: I was building a trading CLI. Python, API integrations, 13 files, timezone logic that kept breaking. Every time I needed help, I'd copy code into ChatGPT in the browser. Paste the response back. Lose context. Repeat. Then I switched to Claude Code in the terminal. Same place I write code. Same place I run tests. No tab switching. In one session I: Refactored...

My Telegram AI assistant is a real time saver. It has access to my entire vault — 4,000+ notes, daily worklog entries, open tasks, project frameworks, everything. When I ask a question in Telegram, it doesn't just give generic advice. It pulls from my actual recent work, connects patterns across notes, and responds in my voice. Example: "What should I work on today?" It checks my open tasks, recent worklog entries, deadlines, and suggests priorities based on what I've actually been building....