You might not want to admit this, but you’ve likely caught yourself giving someone prompting advice at least once. Though there’s nothing wrong with sharing what works for you, think about what happens when practically everyone is doing the same thing. One person swears by a particular prompting technique, another insists on doing the exact opposite, and before you know it, you’re surrounded by a sea of conflicting advice.
With so many different opinions floating around, it can get surprisingly difficult to figure out which tips are actually worth implementing and which ones you should probably take with a grain of salt. This is why I think some of the strongest advice comes from the people actually building these tools.
Fortunately, Claude Code’s creator, Boris Cherny, just shared some more tips on how to get the most out of the coding agent. Some of his current advice definitely goes against the very practices he previously recommended, so I had to put his latest tips to the test and see whether rethinking my own Claude Code workflow would actually make a difference.
Cherny now recommends skipping the planning step
So much for planning ahead
Cherny shared these tips during a conversation with Cat Wu, Anthropic’s Head of Product for Claude Code, in a video published to celebrate the coding agent’s first anniversary. While it’s been a bit since the video was posted on YouTube, the advice only recently caught my attention when Claude shared some of the highlights in an Instagram carousel.
Now, if you’ve been following the AI coding space recently, you might’ve noticed that Claude Code’s Plan Mode has been getting quite a bit…