How to use Claude Code better than 99% of People

I think there's a lot of people using Claude Code wrong, and they're using Claude Code wrong because it is one of the most powerful pieces of technology that have ever existed. And there's a way to use Claude Code that spin up actual AI employees. But the thing is, you have to set it up in a certain way. And today I'm gonna show you what that certain way is. I'm gonna show you the nine different areas that you need to master in order to spin up these AI employees. And this episode might feel a little boring at times because I'm going through a setup, I'm teaching you how to actually do it. But I think that the people that actually stick to the end, the people that actually get their hands dirty, that copy what I do, and I'm gonna give away all the prompts and all the sauce in this episode, are gonna be able to outperform people, are gonna be able to build products that work twenty-four seven, are gonna build AI native companies, AI native companies that just are able to crush. And I'm so excited to put this together for a free course for how to master Claude Code like no one ever before with AI agents that run twenty-four seven that act like AI employees. Enjoy the episode. Shout out to Anthropic for supporting the channel and sponsoring today's episode. [singing] The Startup Grind podcast. It's sippin' time, baby. The way I think about an AI employee and setting it up is actually pretty simple. If you wanna-- if you want Claude Code to act more like an employee, you need to give it the same basic things you would give a person joining your company. It only makes sense, right? First, it needs a workspace. In this case, the workspace is called a repo, and that's where the product actually lives. That's where the files live, and that's where Claude can actually go and do the work. Second thing it needs is memory. Memory is basically the context that you put into the project, so Claude understands what you're building, who the customer is, what matters right now, what good work looks like, and we'll get into that later, and what you've already learned, so it doesn't repeat mistakes. Then it needs a brief. Before Claude is, like, changing things all around, you want it to understand the assignment. So that's where this thing called Plan mode is super, super useful. You're basically saying, "Look around, read the context, think through the job, and tell me how you'd approach it before you touch anything." And for something like that, you might wanna use, like, a fable over an opus. We'll talk more about that. Then it needs a clear ticket, basically an assignment. You know, a real employee does better with an assignment. Why wouldn't an AI employee? Claude is the exact same. The mistake a lot of people make is they'll say, "Make the app better. Make this pop," these very vague prompts, uh, that are assigned to it. The better way to do it is to be extremely specific. So if you're, you know, wanna-- if you're creating a landing page and you wanna create a wait list form, you'd say, "Add a wait list form to the landing page with a success state and check it in desktop preview." That's gonna work just a lot better. The next thing it needs is eyes, you