How I Use Claude Code
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Philipp Spiess's practitioner blog post sharing daily-driver patterns after subscribing to Claude Max, including calling /clear aggressively between unrelated tasks, spawning parallel sub-tasks via the Task tool to review the same code from multiple personas, using git worktrees to run Claude on two problems in the same repo at once, and being candid about where autonomous feedback loops (tests, screenshots) haven't worked well for him.
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Published June 11, 2025, by Philipp Spiess (Codex at OpenAI; previously Tailwind Labs, Meta, Sourcegraph, React DOM). After a month on Claude Max his usage skyrocketed and he found himself opening VS Code much less.
Start new threads: his top takeaway is to call /clear more often, since AI agents become more unpredictable the longer a conversation goes, especially across different questions — starting a new prompt even if it means repeating instructions improved his results dramatically.
Let Claude Code use Claude Code: he discovered claude mcp serve exposes a Task tool that spins off a sub-agent with the same tool access as the main agent (minus the ability to spawn further sub-tasks). His…
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Philipp Spiess's practitioner blog post sharing daily-driver patterns after subscribing to Claude Max, including calling /clear aggressively between unrelated tasks, spawning parallel sub-tasks via the Task tool to review the same code from multiple personas, using git worktrees to run Claude on two…
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