Boris Cherny advises deleting CLAUDE.md, skills, and hooks
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny recommends deleting CLAUDE.md, skills, and hooks every few months to test the model without them. Anthropic cut 80% of Claude Code's own system prompt for Opus 5 and says it got smarter; the video host agrees "only to an extent."
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